dhermann1
I'll Lock Up
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Two archaisms in one phrase "While you've a lucifer to light your fag". Lucifer, of course, being a match, fag being short for faggot, the literal meaning of which is a bundle of sticks. My mother always used the term "fag" for cigaret. Where it got the more infamous current meaning I don't know, and don't intend to explore.