Meanings
plural fag hags
- derogatoryslangsometimesvulgarA woman who enjoys the company of gay men.
Susan "Suki" Eagan, manager of the Boston bar Chaps, describes her own personal odyssey as "local debutante to fag hag to fag bar owner."
1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 81 more example
Becoming a glam fag hag was not about money or privilege. Au contraire. Any working-class girl was eligible. All she had to do was get a job in a fag-rich environment, be it a hair salon or a department store.
2012, Simon Doonan, Gay Men Don't Get Fat, Penguin, →ISBNSynonyms: fruit fly
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA woman who enjoys the company of gay men.
Origin
From fag + hag. First use appears c. 1965 in the publication The Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan marillufa
- marillufawoman who likes gay men
Finnish homoemo
- homoemowoman who likes gay men
French femme à pédés, fille à pédés
- femme à pédéswoman who likes gay men
- fille à pédéswoman who likes gay men
German Schwulenmutti, Tuntentante
- Schwulenmuttiwoman who likes gay men
- Tuntentantewoman who likes gay men
Greek αδελφομάνα
- αδελφομάνα (adelfomána)woman who likes gay men
Italian frociarola
- frociarolawoman who likes gay men
Japanese お焦げ
- お焦げ (okoge)woman who likes gay men
Polish kobieta zadająca się z gejami
- kobieta zadająca się z gejamiwoman who likes gay men
Spanish mariliendre
- mariliendrewoman who likes gay men
Swedish faghag
- faghagwoman who likes gay men
Cite this entry
fag hag. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fag%20hag
“fag hag.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fag%20hag. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fag hag,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fag%20hag.
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