fag

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 232 words | Copyright

fag2 †flag, decline XVI; work hard, toil; tire, weary XVIII. of unkn. orig.; cf. FLAG4,
Hence fag sb. drudgery, fatique; in Eng. public schools, junior who performs duties for a senior XVIII (whence as vb., act as a fag XIX).

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