10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAGGERY»
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faggery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
faggery,. fagging . Serving as a FAG, in a school: schoolboys'; from ca 1850,
1820, resp. De Quincey in his autobiographical sketches, 1853, 'Faggery was an
abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands.' ...
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Studies in Etymology and Etiology: With Emphasis on ...
With respect to the words fag, fagger, faggery, and fagging, I have no opinion one
way or the other. Nonetheless, it should be noted that the first vowel of those
common nouns is /æ/ whereas that of Fagin 1 is /ei/, so that the similarity is more
...
David L. Gold, Antonio Lillo Buades, Félix Rodríguez González,
2009
3
Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise ...
246 The legislation, therefore, exacerbated the financial crisis in the city. For
some, the pressure was too much to bear. Samuel Faggery, anxious about the
future of his deposits, demanded his share of the gold and silver housed in the
Bank of ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Ex official fag-day. .faggery, fagging. Serving as a fag, q.v., in a school:
schoolboys'; from ca. 1850, 1820, resp. De Quincey in his autobiographical
sketches, 1853, 'Faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched
by profane ...
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
Dr. M. when he made this discovery, ceased to wonder at the medical symptoms;
and as faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane
hands, he lodged no idle complaints, but simply removed his sons to a school ...
METHOD TO PROCESS RASUA Mix faggery with liquid content of two coconut
pieces when faggery is fully dissolved in coconut water, add powder of cardamon
. Such Pani-Pooly tastes deliciously if eaten with a saltish chani. VlPATTU ...
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The public school word-book
Hence fagger, fag-maSter, fAGgINg, and FAGgERY. 1853. De Quincey, Autob.
Sketches, i. 210. Faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched
by profane hands. 1873. Pall Mall Gazette, 17th May. The Winchester "tunding" ...
John Stephen Farmer,
1900
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The American Dictionary of the English Language: Based on ...
Faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane
hands." — De Quincey. FAGOT or FAGGOT, fag'ut, n. a bundle of sticks used for
fuel : a stick : anything like a fagot : a soldier numbered on the muster-roll, but not
...
The faggery was no more, nor was the hall, or the dormitory. \Ve were being put
up temporarily in a town house just outside the school gates, a good deal to the
wrath of some of our number, who felt it was putting them down to the level of the
...
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The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete ...
Faggery (fog'er-i), n. Fatiguing labour or drudgery; the system of fogging carried
on at some public schools. Faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to
be touched by profane hands. De Qmntty. Faggot, n. [add.] In former times
heretics ...
John Ogilvie, Charles Annandale,
1883
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FAGGERY»
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Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years in Jail
... he'd spend entire nights "on Second Life riding around in a virtual spaceship with the words 'faggery daggery doo' written on it, wearing Afros ... «RollingStone.com, Sep 13»
From The Vault Of Art Shay: Potty Humor
Of course the comic Sacha Baron Cohen opened the Hollywood underwear to modern potty humor, adding fake faggery , a cruel comic ... «Chicagoist, Jul 13»
Rupert Everett's Fetchingly Flabby Bottom
I'm sure they enjoyed his hag faggery but also that exhilaratingly tart honesty. (Apparently Madonna always smells "vaguely of sweat."). «Huffington Post, May 13»
Happy Pi Day!
I didn't get it, but I was intrigued by this mad scientist of experimental art-faggery, like watching live erotica through plate glass. Not that I ever. «San Diego Reader, Mar 10»