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To: TheCrusader

He acts as a servant to an older schoolmate? What's so offensive about that?

Merriam-Webster.com

Main Entry: fag
Function: noun
1 chiefly British : TOIL, DRUDGERY
2 a : an English public-school boy who acts as servant to an older schoolmate b :


5 posted on 06/21/2006 4:26:40 PM PDT by jw777
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To: jw777

I'm sure Oz doesn't leave home without his Merriam-Webster.


7 posted on 06/21/2006 4:34:20 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: jw777
Isn't it also a colloquial word for a cigarette?
9 posted on 06/21/2006 4:36:34 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("5 Minute Penalty for #40, Ann Theresa Calvello!" - RIP 1929-2006)
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