{
  "fag":{
    "antonyms":[
      "dogsbody",
      "drone",
      "drudge",
      "drudger",
      "foot soldier",
      "grub",
      "grubber",
      "grunt",
      "laborer",
      "peon",
      "plugger",
      "slave",
      "slogger",
      "toiler",
      "worker"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a gay person":[
        "\u2014 used as a term of abuse and disparagement"
      ],
      ": an English public-school boy who acts as servant to an older schoolmate":[],
      ": cigarette":[],
      ": drudge sense 1":[],
      ": to serve as a fag (see fag entry 3 ) especially in an English public school":[
        "fagging for older boys during his first year"
      ],
      ": to tire by strenuous activity : exhaust":[
        "fagged by the strenuous climb"
      ],
      ": to work hard : toil":[],
      ": toil , drudgery":[
        "it is such a fag ; I came back tired to death",
        "\u2014 Jane Austen"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1770, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun",
      "1772, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
      "1785, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1806, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
      "1921, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1888, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "fag end":"Noun",
      "perhaps from obsolete fag to droop, from fag fag end":"Verb and Noun",
      "probably short for faggot":"Noun and Verb",
      "see faggot":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fag"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bang away",
      "beaver (away)",
      "dig (away)",
      "drudge",
      "endeavor",
      "grub",
      "hump",
      "hustle",
      "labor",
      "moil",
      "peg (away)",
      "plod",
      "plow",
      "plug",
      "slave",
      "slog",
      "strain",
      "strive",
      "struggle",
      "sweat",
      "toil",
      "travail",
      "tug",
      "work"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081131",
    "type":[
      "adjective,",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "fag end":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a poor or worn-out end : remnant":[],
      ": the extreme end":[],
      ": the last part or coarser end of a web of cloth":[],
      ": the untwisted end of a rope":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a patchwork quilt sewn together from the fag ends of many bolts of cloth"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "earlier fag , from Middle English fagge flap":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "end",
      "leftover",
      "oddment",
      "remainder",
      "remnant",
      "scrap",
      "stub"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000949",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "fagot":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": bundle : such as":[],
      ": a bundle of sticks":[],
      ": a bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperature":[],
      ": to make a fagot (see fagot entry 1 ) of : bind together into a bundle":[
        "fagoted sticks"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fa-g\u0259t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English fagot , from Anglo-French":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1598, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-063943"
  },
  "Fagopyrum":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a genus of European and Asiatic annual plants (family Polygonaceae) having the achene much exceeding the perianth but otherwise resembling members of the genus Polygonum \u2014 see buckwheat":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8p\u012br\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Latin fagus beech + New Latin -o- + -pyrum (from Greek pyros wheat)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075426"
  },
  "fagot cinnamon":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": indonesian cinnamon":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1918, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-200828"
  },
  "fagmaster":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a schoolboy who has a fag":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "fag entry 3 + master":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-204150"
  },
  "fagoter":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that makes fagots or works with fagoting : such as":[],
      ": one who sews together or decorates with fagoting by hand or by machine":[],
      ": a sewing machine attachment for making fagoting":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fag\u0259t\u0259(r)"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-213743"
  },
  "fagots":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": bundle : such as":[],
      ": a bundle of sticks":[],
      ": a bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperature":[],
      ": to make a fagot (see fagot entry 1 ) of : bind together into a bundle":[
        "fagoted sticks"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fa-g\u0259t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English fagot , from Anglo-French":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1598, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-222636"
  },
  "fagine":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a volatile narcotic principle present in the husks of beechnuts":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8f\u0101\u02ccj\u0113n",
      "-j\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin Fagus + English -ine":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001506"
  },
  "fagoting":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an embroidery produced by pulling out horizontal threads from a fabric and tying the remaining cross threads into groups of an hourglass shape":[],
      ": an openwork stitch joining hemmed edges":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8fa-g\u0259-ti\u014b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1868, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-014006"
  },
  "fagot iron":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": iron in bars or masses made from fagots":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-014319"
  }
}