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Fag (personal servant)


 
  • In British English, the word "fag" was used (as a verb and a noun) to refer to a kind of apprenticeship practiced within public schools. Younger boys within the school "fagged" for the older boys by cooking breakfasts, cleaning sports kit (equipment) or other menial tasks.

    • The term fag in this sense derived from the sense "flagging in energy due to having performed strenuous menial labour," as in "I'm all fagged out." Violence, bullying and sexual abuse were sometimes associated with fagging. As private schools have become more exposed to public scrutiny, fear of litigation has caused the practice of fagging to be banned in most schools.

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  • The practice is said to have survived as a colonial legacy in South Asia, in combination with hazing, under the name of ragging.
  • An independent modern parallel, even with an organized hierarchy, is the Russian military dedovshchina.
 
 

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