fagged out

English

Etymology

From fag (“to make exhausted”, verb).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

fagged out (comparative more fagged out, superlative most fagged out)

1. (slang) Very tired, or exhausted by hard work or physical exercise.
   • 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC:

     I was fagged out, and for the first time in years felt a question as to my ability to cope with an antagonist; […]

   • 2016 [1890], Sverre Lyngstad, transl., Hunger, paperback edition, Canongate Books Ltd., translation of Sult by Knut Hamsun, Part One, page 45:

     I busied myself looking for a likely place, began to scrape together some heather and juniper twigs and made a bed on a small slope where it was fairly dry, opened my parcel and took out the blanket. I was tired and fagged out from the long walk and went to bed at once. I tossed and turned many times before I finally got settled.