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/ˈfæɡəɹi/ · noun
(UK, education, historical) The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way)..
Was it to be borne, that when the Slaves had been emancipated in the West Indies, and the Factory children had, been relieved from their incessant labour, that they were still to be doomed to the servile condition of Faggery, and be kept six hours a-day in school?
And, as faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands, he lodged no idle complaints.
Use faggery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Faggery means (UK, education, historical) The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way)..
Common synonyms include fagging, faggotry.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Was it to be borne, that when the Slaves had been emancipated in the West Indies, and the Factory children had, been relieved from their incessant labour, that they were still to be doomed to the servile condition of Faggery, and be kept six hours a-day in school?
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