Sentence examples for to fag from inspiring English sources

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to fag

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In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.

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Assuming you're able to put aside your Lower Fourth tendencies to snigger every time a character talks about being "tossed in a blanket" or wails that he is not going to "fag" a moment longer, Tom Brown's Schooldays is not, on the whole, simmering with submerged same-sex desire.

He gives chapter and verse on who is allowed to fag for whom, what time "calling over" is, and exactly how many lines of Latin prep each class generally prepares (and how this differs from the official tariff laid down by masters).

Before "queer" was used as a common identity, it was understood as equivalent to "fag".

I'm not sure which word she took greater offense to: "fag," or "hag".

The word "pousti" is Greek slang with a meaning similar to "fag".

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Dylan Hartley, another Northampton front-rower, is a hot tip to replace Tom Youngs at hooker – partly because Youngs is about to become a father; partly because the gap between the two players has narrowed to fag-paper width – while David Wilson of Bath, in the best form of his career, is challenging Dan Cole of Leicester on the tight head of the scrum.

Did you hear about the gay rights rally in Moscow a couple of weeks ago where the skinheads and church AND police all teamed up to fag-bash the protestors?

I am a waitress and my God forbids me from servin' lunch to fags.

Get your kids addicted to fags at the age of eight.

You go back on to fags and it's like…I need another one!' (13; male, 33) Table  2 displays details of participants' reported current levels of motivation and confidence to quit, showing that, while the majority indicated low motivation, more than a third reported higher levels.

We've learned to change from coloreds to Negroes to blacks to African-Americans; we've learned to change from chairman to chairperson or chairwoman or chair; we've even learned to change from fag to homosexual to gay.

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