Word: fagging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anthony Eden, and a pride of literary lions, including Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Orwell. In their day, these illustrious personages, like all new boys, were on call to serve tea, run errands, and polish boots of top seniors. Eton was founded in 1440 by Henry VI, but fagging did not begin until the 17th century. The young servants are called fags, their service fagging, because in the 1660s "to fag" meant to toil...
...they are particularly open-minded, but only if this "minority" student approaches them within their context. So very few straight students at this University feel comfortable joining me at a dinner table of known male gay students. A woman who does so is immediately branded as a "fag hag," just as a White student who sits and associates with Black students is considered a "nigger lover." (Of course, we don't use that term any more--"We know better"--but the thought still persists...