Dec 1, 2015 · Aside from the offensive meaning, colloquial British English uses the term fag to indicate a cigarette. James has gone outside for a fag In my googling, I thought perhaps this originates from one...

Feb 12, 2021 · 4 I'm from Pennsylvania. With the recent threat by the Westboro Baptist Church to protest the funeral of seven children who perished in a fire, I've been thinking a lot about their …

There is never more than a fag paper between them I have always understood "fags" to either refer to cigarettes or homosexuals, but what does it mean in this context?

Mar 12, 2018 · My understanding is that the word fascism comes from fasces meaning a bundle of sticks and the slur also had the meaning of a bundle of sticks. Are we looking at false friends?

Jul 19, 2020 · Use of fag and faggot as the term for an effeminate man has become understood as an Americanism in British English, primarily due to entertainment media use in films and television …

Jul 19, 2019 · We used to call women who preferred the company of gay men as "fag hags" What are straight men who prefer the company of gay men called? I found nothing on the internet, unless you …

Jul 5, 2014 · I have heard lots of lesbians refer to gay guys as twinks; I have heard some straight girls (mostly falling into the fag hag category) refer to gay guys as twinks, in conversation with gay guys; …

A fishwife or fish fag is a woman who sells fish.... Fish women were notoriously loud and foul-mouthed as in the expression, To swear like a fishwife. One reason for their outspokenness is that their wares …

"Queer", an old slang term for gay men, and "fag"/"faggot", originally AE slang for a wimp or unmanly person, but which came to be associated with the stereotypical "swishy" gay man, have become …

Oct 19, 2017 · In Rudyard Kipling's Stalky and Co. is a rather long scene when Stalky, Beetle and McTurk bully a pair of boys who have themselves been bullying a 'fag' (dated BrE usage: a junior …