or faggery, subs. (public schools’).—Waiting upon and doing menial work far a schoolfellow in a higher form. Also used adjectively.
1853. DE QUINCEY, Autobiographic Sketches, i., 210. FAGGERY was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands.
1873. Pall Mall Gazette, 17 May. The Winchester ‘tunding’ system, with all its faults, is hardly less objectionable than the FAGGING system pursued in the Scotch endowed hospitals.
