Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. exhausted.

1762		Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) II 44: Mean time tydides Pallas found / Quite fagg’d and stretch’d upon the ground.
1780		Mme D’Arblay Diary (1891) I 255: I felt horribly fagged.
1812		T.H. ‘Punch’s Apotheosis’ in Smith Rejected Addresses 127: I’m fagg’d to death, and out of breath.
1814		Austen Mansfield Park (1926) 267: You look tired and fagged, Fanny.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1833		C.A. Davis Letters of Major J. Downing (1835) 68: I am eny most fag’d out myself, and I begin to think [...] I have done enuff for the country.
1836		D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 47: I then cut my line, and rose to the surface pretty well fagged out.
1841		Sydney Herald 26 Oct. 2/4: r Rennie gave an im- mense number of examples of similar slang vulgarities [...] a deep one, for ‘a designing fellow;’ fagged, for ‘tired;’ to fleece, for to ‘plunder’.
1848		Bartlett Dict. Americanisms 132: fagged out. Fatigued; worn out.
1849		Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 23 Dec. 6/2: ‘I have, however, sometimes been so throughly fagged [...] as to have fallen asleep’.
1856		M. Griffith Autobiog. of a Female Slave 144: Her old fagged-out frame ain’t worth the waste of my leeches.
1858		A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 224: They were completely fagged to death, and wishing they were at home.
1861		Hills & Plains 2 161: [He] came home thoroughly fagged.
1861		(con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor III 116/1: I feel fagged for want of breath.
1867		Harper’s Mag. Aug. n.p.: The [opium] habit is gaining fearful ground among our professional men, the operatives in our mills, our weary serving women, our fagged clerks, our former liquor drunkards, our very day laborers, who a generation ago took gin.
1874		J. Greenwood Wilds of London (1881) 199: They were enabled to put on an appearance so fagged and woebegone.
1884		(con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 51: Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Nov. 14/3: Ninety-nine men out of every hundred had lost money – were thirsty, hungry, dusty, and fagged-out.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) IV 662: Sarah was then much fagged and dilapidated.
1896		G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 173: Hardock, you’re fagged out, and had better stay.
1899		‘Pot’ & ‘Swears’ Scarlet City 232: Hallo, Jack [...] you look fagged.
1899		J. Flynt Tramping with Tramps 259: I wish they’d remember that we get fagged out.
1901		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 5 June 4/7: The Union Jack and Australian flag flopped in a fagged out fashion.
1905		A. Binstead Mop Fair 40: The sea-water bath, distributed over her fagged limbs.
1907		W.M. Raine Bucky O’Connor (1910) 72: Plumb fagged out, kid?
1910		Wodehouse Psmith in the City (1993) 105: He’s absolutely fagged out.
1918		F. Dunham diary 12 Feb. Long Carry (1970) 127: We were out for two hours, and arrived back thoroughly ‘fagged’.
1919		D. Runyon ‘A Tale of two Fists’ XX in Pittsburgh Press (PA) 26 May 24/6: ‘Price would come back sweating like a bull and all fagged out’.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 573: He was altogether too fagged out to institute a thorough search though he tried to recollect about biscuits he dimly remembered.
1925		Odum & Johnson Negro and His Songs (1964) 266: What’s a matter – fagged out?
1929		B. Duffy Rocky Road 63: I feel a bit fagged after the night, as you can imagine.
1934		Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 174: The corn chandler, who was looking a bit fagged.
1938		D. Runyon ‘For a Pal’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 576: Blind Benny is very much fagged out.
1945		D. Bolster Roll On My Twelve 101: I’m feeling rather fagged.
1949		H. Miller Sexus (1969) 114: Let me walk you back – you must be fagged out.
1950		A. Buckeridge Jennings Goes To School 61: Well, I’m feeling a bit fagged out after foxing into town.
1953		F. Paley Rumble on the Docks (1955) 100: They think [...] we’re all fagged.
1960		E. De Roo Big Rumble 71: I can’t think. Just pooped. Haven’t eaten. Feel fagged out.
1970		A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 61: I was fagged out from the mental effort of steering it along.
1971		E. Taylor Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (1982) 67: ‘You really ’do look a little fagged.
1996		N. Blincoe ‘Ardwick Green’ in Champion Disco Biscuits (1997) 10: I’ll tell you, you’re looking a bit fagged.
2012		(con. 1954) ‘Jack Tunney’ Tomato Can Comeback [ebook] I gritted my teeth, waiting for him to slow down and fag out.

2. shocked, mentally destroyed.

1900

‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘Founded on Fact’ Sporting Times 5 May 1/4: That fair one, / Perceiving how fagged was his nibs, / Said ‘At that sort of thing she’s a rare one. / Leave off, Alice, telling such fibs!’.