(Britain, dated, colloquial) A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
(Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
(UK, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
(UK, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
(US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
(US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.
(chiefly US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an especially effeminate or unusual one.
verb
(intransitive, Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
(intransitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
(intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
(transitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
(transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
