Meanings
- UKhistoricaluncountableeducationThe system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way).
And, as faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands, he lodged no idle complaints.
1853, Thomas De Quincey, “Autobiographic Sketches”, in Philip Van Doren Stern, editor, Selected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey, published 1937, The Nation of London, page 1901 more example
Was it to be borne, that when the Slaves had been emancipated in the West Indies, and the Factory children had, been relieved from their incessant labour, that they were still to be doomed to the servile condition of Faggery, and be kept six hours a-day in school?
1839, “The Triumvirate”, in The Carthusian: A Miscellany in Prose and Verse, volume 1, page 182Synonyms: fagging
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way).
nounHomosexuality.
Origin
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