fagger

noun

fagger

noun

UK /ˈfæɡə/

Etymology From fag + -er.

1

Historical A senior school student who has a younger student as a servant under the fagging system.

  • Grown bold by impunity, the faggers resolved to divide the boys of the classes below them among themselves as fags by lots.1860, William Henry Giles Kingston, Ernest Bracebridge: or, Schoolboy Days:
  • It is everywhere observed that a liberated slave is apt to make a merciless master, and that boys who have been cruelly fagged at school are cruel faggers.1887, Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Essays, page 63:

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