fagger

English

Etymology

From fag +‎ -er.

Noun

fagger (plural faggers)

  1. (historical) A senior school student who has a younger student as a servant under the fagging system.
    • 1860, William Henry Giles Kingston, Ernest Bracebridge: or, Schoolboy Days:
      Grown bold by impunity, the faggers resolved to divide the boys of the classes below them among themselves as fags by lots.
    • 1887, Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Essays, page 63:
      It is everywhere observed that a liberated slave is apt to make a merciless master, and that boys who have been cruelly fagged at school are cruel faggers.
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