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FAG-END

Date "FAG-END" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)


Specialty Definition: FAG-END

DomainDefinition

Literature

Fag-end (A). The selvedge or coarse end of a piece of cloth. This also is from facio, factum, meaning the part added after the piece is finished. The fag-end of a session means the last few days before dissolution. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: FAG-END

Synonym by domain: fag end (industry).

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Synonyms within Context: FAG-END

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

End

Noun: end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail; (rear); verge; (edge); tag, peroration; bonne bouche; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard.

Remainder

Noun: remainder, residue; remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic; leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts; residuum; dregs; (dirt); refuse; (useless); stubble, result, educt; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton., stump; alluvium.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: FAG-END

"FAG-END" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FAG-END" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: FAG-END

Language Translations for "FAG-END"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

csikk (butt, cigarette stub, cigarette-stub, fag end, stub, stump). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ag-endfay

   

Swedish

  

sladd (cord, end, rope, skid, string). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ส่วนสุ"ท้ายหรือส่วนที่แย่ที่สุ", ก้นบุหรี่ (tab-end), ก้นกรองบุหรี่. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

phần bỏ đi, đầu xơ ra. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FAG-END

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: defang, fanged.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-g-n"

-1 letter: fadge, ganef.

-2 letters: aged, dang, deaf, dean, egad, fade, fane, fang, fend, gaed, gaen, gane.

-3 letters: age, and, ane, dag, den, end, eng, fad, fag, fan, fed, fen, gad, gae, gan, ged, gen, nae, nag.

-4 letters: ad, ae, ag, an, de, ed, ef, en, fa, na, ne.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-g-n"
 

+1 letter: defangs, flanged.

 

+2 letters: defacing, defaming, defanged, fanegada, fenagled, finagled.

 

+3 letters: deafening, defanging, defatting, defeating, deflating, defleaing, defoaming, defraying, engrafted, fanegadas, gardenful, ingrafted, magnified, prefading.

 

+4 letters: bedwarfing, defaulting, defecating, defilading, defrauding, enfilading, federating, firefanged, foredating, fragmented, gardenfuls, grainfield, ladyfinger, newfangled, oldfangled, redrafting.

 

+5 letters: bedeafening, deadlifting, deafeningly, defalcating, defoliating, denazifying, dragonflies, fecundating, feudalizing, fingerboard, frankpledge, freeloading, godforsaken, grainfields, grandfather, ladyfingers, redefeating, unmagnified.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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