fag out

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/7/2007 08:10 PM, sagehem wrote:
>Jonathan writes:
>
> >Intrans. "fag out" (to become wearied to exhaustion) is not commonly used
> >by U.S. speakers in my experience, but undergraduates frequently report it
> >as "slang," presumably because they've read it somewhere in an English
> >class.  Trans. "fag (out)" (to weary to exhuastion) and adj. "fagged"
> >(exhausted) may be more common, but none are typical.
>~~~~~~~~
>"Fagged out" has been unambiguously "dead tired" nearly all my life,

Me too.  (intr.)

>though
>I don't hear it much any more.  It co-existed with "faggot" without causing
>confusion  (or sniggering,  that I knew of) or any sense of double entendre
>when I was growing up.  I would still use it without thinking twice.

After all this discussion, I will now think twice about using it
about someone else.

Joel

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