dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/fag_MW.json
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{
"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"
}
}