fagged out

comparative more fagged out · superlative most fagged out

1. slangVery tired, or exhausted by hard work or physical exercise.

   I was fagged out, and for the first time in years felt a question as to my ability to cope with an antagonist; […]

   1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC

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   When at last I decided that it was useless to go on, and that I must make up my mind to spend at least one night on the moors, I threw myself down thoroughly fagged out.

   1895, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, The King in Yellow, The Demoiselle d'Ys

   I busied myself looking for a likely place, began to scrape together some heather and juniper twigs and made a bed on a small slope where it was fairly dry, opened my parcel and took out the blanket. I was tired and fagged out from the long walk and went to bed at once. I tossed and turned many times before I finally got settled.

   2016 [1890], Sverre Lyngstad, transl., Hunger, paperback edition, Canongate Books Ltd., translation of Sult by Knut Hamsun, Part One, page 45

   Synonyms: knackered, shagged out, bleareyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bone-tired, bushed, tired out

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of fag out