What's the difference between ciggy and fag?

Ciggy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Socially, the battery-powered fag seems to inspire anything from curiosity to annoyance – as well as contempt in some proper smokers, who consider the counterfeit ciggie cowardly and naff.
  • (2) Free and easy Because ... British citizens are already aware that everyone in this country receives a free house, a laptop computer, a 47in flat-screen television and 40 ciggies a day from the government as standard, regardless of whether we choose to work.
  • (3) My daughter – with a frown you could keep a ciggie in and roots that have faded – but looking rather sharp.
  • (4) Much has been made of the dangers of passive smoke for non-smokers, but what about the mental health of smokers who will be forced to go ciggie cold turkey, with all the stress and insomnia that involves?
  • (5) The laptop reveals the air conditioning, a bookshelf, the contents of a fridge, a childhood charm, a daft hat, some ciggies she said she had given up and posters of Frank O'Hara and PJ Harvey … and her father with hair … and a Brooklyn street with the odd Scorsese-type profanity.

Fag


Definition:

  • (n.) A knot or coarse part in cloth.
  • (v. i.) To become weary; to tire.
  • (v. i.) To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
  • (v. i.) To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
  • (v. t.) To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
  • (v. t.) Anything that fatigues.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rebelling by dabbling in drink, fags, sex – the list goes on – is part of growing up.
  • (2) Here, we examine a group of six recessive mutations, the facets (fa, fa3, fag, fag-2, fafx and fasw), which affect eye and optic lobe morphology and have been previously shown to be associated with the insertion of transposable elements into an intronic region of Notch.
  • (3) There were 54 cases of somaticised anxiety (brain fag); 22 cases of depressive neurosis characterised by hypochondriasis, cognitive complaints, and culturally determined paranoid ideation; 23 cases of 'hysteria' in the form of dissociative states, pseudoseizures and fugues; and 39 cases of brief reactive psychosis which differed from the dissociative states more in duration and intensity than in form.
  • (4) The use of VW FAg levels in the diagnosis of vasculitic disorders has been proposed.
  • (5) It is the fact that the poor spend too much on fags and booze.
  • (6) In this paper an attempt has been made to tie the concept down more firmly by proposing a strict definition, examining the appropriateness of this definition in determining the CBS status of two new syndromes (anorexia nervosa and brain-fag) and analysing the usefulness or not of the basic CBS concept.
  • (7) In males, atrophic areas and the remaining choriocapillaris are clearly demonstrated in FAG and less well visible in ICG angiograms.
  • (8) At baseline, although the levels were not outside the laboratory range, the disease groups had raised VW FAg compared with the simultaneously tested controls.
  • (9) For those who like verisimilitude in their faux fags there are disposables – the hefty but effective Ten Motives or the petite, feminine NJOY – and rechargeable kits complete with USB chargers and cartridges from the likes of E-Lites, Halo and Skycig.
  • (10) Venostatic stress increased VW FAg activity in all disease groups, control levels also increased and differences between controls and disease groups diminished in significance.
  • (11) Brown's fear has been that he might inherit the fag end of a tired government.
  • (12) In other words, the noise surrounding this debate, not to mention the TV duel, will only partly be about whether Britain should be in Europe or not: the rest of it, one would imagine, will centre on the issue of immigration, both in terms of its links with the EU, and as a public concern that informs just about every other area of policy – and, implicitly or otherwise, the sense a lot of people have that we are governed by a homogeneous, well-heeled, cosseted bunch of politicians, and among the only people who offer any kind of alternative is Farage, complete with his pint and fag.
  • (13) At fluorescein angiography (FAG) at a mean of 8 months post-operatively, 9 showed leaking from the iridal vessels, and 3 were normal: Three cases were excluded because of factors affecting the iris FAG.
  • (14) He cycles down to the docks, puffs a fag and contemplates the water.
  • (15) In 1995, when Williams walked out on his boyband, he bounded into Liam's rock'n'roll life with ease – because although he had once writhed around in jelly , he also had a rebellious side with a penchant for Adidas jackets, booze, birds and fags.
  • (16) A lovely woman meets us, gives us fags in the cab and says she'll happily answer to the name of Dave too.
  • (17) ITV chief executive Charles Allen accused the corporation of "back of a fag packet" calculations after it requested an inflation-busting settlement that would result in the current £131.50 fee increase to more than £180 by 2014.
  • (18) "Obviously all the other cunts will have the same idea, and the motorways will be rammed," Dad continued, fag wedged in mouth, "so we'll be taking the back roads.
  • (19) In M-SHRSPs with age of 8 weeks, systolic blood pressure was 220mmHg or more and retinal arterioles showed generalised narrowing but no dye leakage was recognized by fluorescein angiography (FAG).
  • (20) The gently warm vapour ingeniously replicates the reflective pause of a real fag, the same quiet little buzz.

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