Word: faggery
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: fa
gger
y
Definition: The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students.
Morphemes:
Affix: fag
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
Affix: -ery
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Added to nouns to form other nouns meaning "a class, group, or collection of."
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ārius
Language: la
Decoded: -arius
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form adjectives from nouns or numerals.