fagger
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]fagger (plural faggers)
- (historical) A senior school student who has a younger student as a servant under the fagging system.
- 1860, William Henry Giles Kingston, Ernest Bracebridge: or, Schoolboy Days:
- Grown bold by impunity, the faggers resolved to divide the boys of the classes below them among themselves as fags by lots.
- 1887, Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Essays, page 63:
- 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.