[f. FAG v. + -ER1.] One who fags. a. One who has a junior boy as his fag at school. b. One who works hard.
a. 1836. E. Howard, Rattlin, the Reefer, liv. I was the fagged, and not the fagger.
1885. The Academy, 6 June, 393/3. It would be of some interest to ascertain his fagger’s name.
b. 1833. W. Jowett, Mem. C. Neale (1835), 38. He had, in fact, never been a hard fagger, but only a steady and regular student.
1843. Fraser’s Mag., XXVII. Jan., 45/1. The hardest faggers and the hardest idlers within the walls.
