fag vs queen what difference

what is difference between fag and queen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Etymology 1

Probably from fag end (“remnant”), from Middle English fagge (“flap”).

Noun

fag (plural fags)

1. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
2. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
   • 1968 January 25, The Bulletin, Oregon,

     He′d Phase Out Fag Industry

     Los Angeles (UPI) – A UCLA professor has called for the phasing out of the cigarette industry by converting tobacco acres to other crops.

   • 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 15,

     All of them, like my mother, were heavy smokers, and after warming themselves by the fire, they would sit on the sofa and smoke, lobbing their wet fag ends into the fire.

   • 2011, Bill Marsh, Great Australian Shearing Stories, unnumbered page,

     So I started off by asking the shearers if they minded if I took a belly off while they were having a fag. Then after a while they were asking me. They′d say, ‘Do yer wanta take over fer a bit while I have a fag?’ And then I got better and I′d finish the sheep and they′d say ‘Christ, I haven′t finished me bloody fag yet, yer may as well shear anotherie.’

3. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.

Synonyms

• (cigarette): ciggy (Australia, Britain), smoke, (Cockney rhyming slang) oily rag

Derived terms

• fag end
• fag packet

Translations

Etymology 2

Akin to flag (“droop, tire”). Compare Dutch vaak (“sleepiness”).

Noun

fag (plural fags)

1. (Britain, dated, colloquial) A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
   • 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1992, Complete Works of Jane Austen, p. 123:

     We are sadly off in the country; not but what we have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go—eight miles is a long way; Mr. Allen says it is nine, measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag—I come back tired to death.

2. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
   • 1791, Richard Cumberland, The Observer, Vol. 4, page 67:

     I had the character at ſchool of being the very beſt fag that ever came into it.

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 18:

     A gang of fags was mobbing about by the notice-boards. They fell silent as he approached. He patted one of them on the head. ‘Pretty children,’ he sighed, digging into his waistcoat pocket and pulling out a handful of change. ‘Tonight you shall eat.’ Scattering the coins at their feet, he moved on.

Verb

fag (third-person singular simple present fags, present participle fagging, simple past and past participle fagged)

1. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
2. (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
   • a. 1829, G. Mackenzie, Lives, quoted in 1829, “Fag”, entry in The London Encyclopaedia: Or, Universal Dictionary, Volume 9, page 12,

     Creighton with-held his force ’till the Italian began to fag, and then brought him to the ground.

3. (intransitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
4. (transitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
5. (intransitive, Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.

Derived terms

• (to act as a servant): fagger, faggery, fagging (as a noun), fagmaster
• (to tire): fagged out

Etymology 3

From faggot.

Noun

fag (plural fags)

1. (chiefly US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an especially effeminate or unusual one.
   • 1921 John Lind, The Female Impersonators (Historical Documentation of American Slang v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan E. Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994) page 716.

     Androgynes known as “fairies,” “fags,” or “brownies.”
2. (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.

   Why did you do that, you fag?

Usage notes

In North America, fag is often considered highly offensive, although some gay people have tried to reclaim it. (Compare faggot.) The humorousness of derived terms fag hag and fag stag is sometimes considered to lessen their offensiveness.

Synonyms

• (male homosexual): See Thesaurus:homosexual person
• (annoying person): See Thesaurus:jerk

Derived terms

• fag hag
• fag stag

Translations

Anagrams

• Afg., gaf

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• fagu, fau

Etymology

From Latin fāgus. Compare Romanian fag.

Noun

fag m (plural fadz)

1. beech

Derived terms

• fagã

Related terms

• fãdzet

Danish

Etymology

From German Fach (“compartment, drawer, subject”), from Old High German fah (“wall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faːˀɣ/, [ˈfæˀj], [ˈfæˀ], IPA^(key): [ˈfɑw-] (in derivatives)

Noun

fag n (singular definite faget, plural indefinite fag)

1. subject (of study)
2. trade, craft, profession
3. bay (the distance between two vertical or horizontal supports in roofs and walls)

Derived terms

• fagfelt
• fagmand
• faglig
• faglitteratur
• skolefag

Inflection

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish fag, itself a borrowing from German Fach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faːɣ]
• Rhymes: -aːɣ

Noun

fag n (genitive singular fags, nominative plural fög)

1. subject (particular area of study)

Declension

Synonyms

• (subject): námsgrein

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German or German Low German fak; compare with German Fach

Noun

fag n (definite singular faget, indefinite plural fag, definite plural faga or fagene)

1. subject (e.g., at school)
2. profession, trade, discipline

Derived terms

References

• “fag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German or German Low German fak; compare with German Fach

Noun

fag n (definite singular faget, indefinite plural fag, definite plural faga)

1. subject (e.g., at school)
2. profession, trade, discipline

Derived terms

References

• “fag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fak/

Noun

fag m anim

1. phage

Declension

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin fāgus, from Proto-Italic *fāgos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech tree”).

Noun

fag m (plural fagi)

1. beech (tree of genus Fagus)

Declension

Related terms

• făget

Etymology 2

From Latin favus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).

Noun

fag n (plural faguri)

1. (archaic) honeycomb

Synonyms

• fagure

Welsh

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaɡ/

Noun

fag

1. Soft mutation of bag.

Mutation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaːɡ/

Noun

fag

1. Soft mutation of mag.

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• queene, quene, queyne (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cwēn (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāni, from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s (“woman”). Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon quān (“wife”; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic ???????????????? (qēns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of gyne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwiːn/, [kʷw̥iːn], enPR: kwēn
• Rhymes: -iːn
• Homophone: quean

Noun

queen (plural queens)

1. A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria.
2. The wife or widow of a king.

3. (chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
4. (card games) A playing card with the letter “Q” and the image of a queen on it, the twelfth card in a given suit.
5. A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carom.
6. A powerful or forceful female person.
7. (LGBT, slang, often derogatory) An effeminate male homosexual. (See usage notes.)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Bebe Scarpi, quoted in 2007, Stephan Cohen, The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York →ISBN, page 196:

     Despite one’s opinion of Sylvia I can attest to the purity of her intent and dedication, and, no one will dare deny she is one gutsy queen.

8. (LGBT, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
9. A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
10. An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.
11. A queen olive.
    • 1984, United States International Trade Commission, Bottled green olives from Spain (page A-24)

      Prices for the two main types of Spanish style green olives – manzanillas and queens – vary according to the size of the crop of each. In some years queens will be more expensive than manzanillas […]

12. A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., esp. Danaus gilippus).

Usage notes

• (LGBT): The term can be either derogatory or a self-identification. (Compare nigger.)
• (LGBT): Some of the people who were historically (in the late 1960s and 1970s) described as “queens” or “drag queens” or “street queens” are now sometimes considered transgender, especially when their gender identity is female or non-binary/genderqueer rather than male. Some people, like Sylvia Rivera, self-identified as both a “transgender person” and a “street queen”. Drag queens, too, can have any gender identity.

Synonyms

• (female monarch): queen regnant, Regina (the reigning queen, formal)
• (wife of a king): queen consort, Regina (the reigning queen, formal)
• (LGBT): See Thesaurus:male homosexual
• (playing card): bitch, cowgirl, girl, lady, mop squeezer

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

Verb

queen (third-person singular simple present queens, present participle queening, simple past and past participle queened)

1. To make a queen.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
3. (chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
4. (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen.
5. (beekeeping) To be the queen of a colony.
6. (BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
   • 2000, “Lorelei”, The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl’s Guide to Female Dominance

     Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).

Derived terms

• queen out

Translations

Anagrams

• quene

Middle English

Noun

queen

1. Alternative form of quene (“queen”)

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