fag v.1
(UK Und.) to beat; thus fagging n., a beating.
![]() | implied in fag the fen | |
![]() | Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 205: Fag, to beat. Fag the bloss, i.e., bang the wench. | |
![]() | Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 109: talthibious to the boats did run / To fetch for Jove a hot cross-bun; / Knowing their bones he’d soon be fagging / Should they not keep his chaps a wagging. | |
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![]() | Dict. Sl. and Cant. | |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![]() | Andrew Jackson 70: Gouge him, hoop his barrel, stranger; fag him in the craw, hit him in the pudding bag. | |
![]() | Vocabulum. | |
, , | ![]() | Sl. Dict. |
![]() | DSUE (1984) 374/1: fagging. A beating, thrashing, thumping. |
In phrases
(UK Und.) to beat up a prostitute.
![]() | Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Fag the Fen, drub the Whore. | |
![]() | Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 205: Fag the Fen, i.e., drub the whore. | |
![]() | New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , , | ![]() | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. |