fagless

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English

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Etymology

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From fag +‎ -less.

Adjective

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fagless (comparative more fagless, superlative most fagless)

  1. (UK, Ireland, colloquial) Without a cigarette.
    • 2009, Raphael Selbourne, Beauty:
      She gave him the whole cigarette and he swaggered back to the group, flaunting his trophy to the fagless.
  2. (dated) That does not fag or tire; untiring.
    fagless toil; a fagless worker
    • 1883, Dugald Ferguson, Castle Gay, and Other Poems, page 30:
      That is he who, true and fagless, / Toiled for Scotland's weal and fame, / Where the name of good Lord Douglas / Still stirs up the patriot's flame.