Meanings
plural faggers
- historicalA senior school student who has a younger student as a servant under the fagging system.
Grown bold by impunity, the faggers resolved to divide the boys of the classes below them among themselves as fags by lots.
1860, William Henry Giles Kingston, Ernest Bracebridge: or, Schoolboy Days1 more example
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.
1887, Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Essays, page 63
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