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- Origin of fag (meaning a cigarette in British English)
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, it comes from "fag", meaning a loose piece of cloth: fag (n 1) Look up fag at Dictionary com British slang for "cigarette" (originally, especially, the butt of a smoked cigarette), 1888, probably from fag "loose piece, last remnant of cloth" (late 14c , as in fag-end "extreme end, loose piece," 1610s), which perhaps is related to fag (v ), which
- When did fag become an offensive word? - English Language Usage . . .
It also may have roots in British public school slang noun fag "a junior who does certain duties for a senior" (1785), with suggestions of catamite, from fag (verb) The explanation that male homosexuals were called faggots because they were burned at the stake as punishment is an etymological urban legend Burning sometimes was a punishment
- meaning - What does fag paper mean in this context? - English . . .
Fag papers are approximately one-thousandth of an inch thick, and are widely used by engineers for
- What is a more professional term for the back-of-the-envelope . . .
[Making a] Zeroth-order approximation [Wikipedia] In science, engineering, and other quantitative disciplines, orders of approximation refer to formal or informal terms for how precise an approximation is, and to indicate progressively more refined approximations: in increasing order of precision, a zeroth-order approximation, a first-order approximation, a second-order approximation, and so
- Expression for straight male who prefers the company of gay men
stag hag, fag stag There are also some people who replace either "fag" or "hag" with "stag" in order to imply a specifically male equivalent fag stag Canonically 'fag stag' is the term for a straight guy who hangs out with mostly gay dudes kspacey, Fri Apr 13 2012 15:20:05 GMT-0700, in Reddit thread "What do you call a bro version of a fag
- On a certain pejorative in contemporary British English
This chimes with my experience In much of my lifetime, in British English, "fag" was more commonly used to refer to a cigarette than it was used as a slur to refer to gay men; in fact, I have only begun to hear "fag" and "faggot" being used by native British English speakers in a derogatory manner in the last 12 or so years
- Why is c*nt so much more derogatory in the US than the UK?
Another word with radically different connotations in British and American English is 'fag' In England, it is a colloquial term for a cigarette; in the USA, it is a very derogatory term for homosexual –
- meaning - Why does fishwife mean mean woman? - English Language . . .
A fishwife or fish fag is a woman who sells fish Fish women were notoriously loud and foul-mouthed as in the expression, To swear like a fishwife One reason for their outspokenness is that their wares were highly perishable and so lost value if not sold quickly Unlike its common usage today, wife meant any woman, not just a married one
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