fagger

A senior school student who has a younger student as a servant under the fagging system.

Noun

  1. A senior school student who has a younger student as a servant under the fagging system.
    • Grown bold by impunity, the faggers resolved to divide the boys of the classes below them among themselves as fags by lots. - 1860, William Henry Giles Kingston, Ernest Bracebridge: or, Schoolboy Days:
    • It is everywhere observed that a liberated slave is apt to make a merciless master, and that boys who have been cruelly fagged at school are cruel faggers. - 1887, Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Essays, page 63:

Origin

From fag + -er.

Forms

faggers