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fig¹
- /fɪɡ/
Rhymes with -ɪɡ
Where it comes from
From Middle English fige, fygge (also fyke, from Old English fīc, see fike), borrowed from Anglo-Norman figue, borrowed from Old French figue, from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fīca (“fig”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree”), from a pre-Indo European language, perhaps Phoenician 𐤐𐤂 (pg, literally “ripe fig”) (compare Biblical Hebrew פַּגָּה (paggâ, “early fallen fig”), Classical Syriac ܦܓܐ (paggāʾ), dialectal Arabic فَجّ (fajj), فِجّ (fijj)). (Another Semitic root (compare Akkadian 𒈠 (tīʾu, literally “fig”)) was borrowed into Ancient Greek as σῦκον (sûkon) (whence English sycophant; Boeotian τῦκον (tûkon)) and Armenian as թուզ (tʻuz).) The soap-making sense derives from the resemblance of the granulations in and texture of the soap to those of a fig. Doublet of fico.
noun figs
- The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
- A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit. I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
- A Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana", (cultivar of Musa acuminata)
- A raisin (dried grape). figgy duff - boiled pudding with raisins
- A small piece of tobacco. “You may flog, and welcome, master,” said he, “if you'll give me a fig o' tibbacky.”
- A fico, a contemptuous gesture.
verb figs · figging · figged
- To insult with a fico, a contemptuous gesture. When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.
- To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
- To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations. For filling figged soaps silicate of potash is best adapted, as soda prevents in a measure the proper crystallization. [...] Artificially figged soap [...makes] a very close imitation of the naturally figged soap.
fig²
- /fɪɡ/
Rhymes with -ɪɡ
Where it comes from
Variation of fike.
verb figs · figging · figged
- To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
fig³
- /fɪɡ/
Rhymes with -ɪɡ
noun figs · fig.
- Abbreviation of figure (“diagram or illustration”).figure
- A person's figure; dress or appearance.
verb figs · figging · figged
- Abbreviation of figure (“to calculate; to think; to come to understand”).figure
- To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
fig⁴
- /fɪɡ/
Rhymes with -ɪɡ
Where it comes from
See figging.
verb figs · figging · figged
- To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak. Ginger, a showy, fast horse — as if he had been figged with ginger under his tail; a red-haired man.
noun figs
- The piece of ginger root used in figging.
Fig⁵
Where it comes from
Calque of Arabic التِين (at-tīn), after the first word of the sura.
proper noun the Fig
- The 95th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Fig⁶
Where it comes from
Clipping.
proper noun the Fig
- Figueroa Street (street in Los Angeles)
