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fike¹

Rhymes with -aɪk

Where it comes from

From Middle English fiken (“to feign, dissemble, flatter”), from Old English fician (“to wheedle, flatter”) (also found in compound befician (“to deceive”)), from Proto-West Germanic *fikōn, from Proto-Germanic *fikōną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyǵ- (“ill-meaning, evil-minded, treacherous, hostile, bad”). Related to Old English ġefic (“fraud, deceit, deception”), Old English fācen (“deceit, fraud, treachery, sin, evil, crime, blemish, fault”), Middle High German veichen (“dissembling, deceit, fraud”), Latin piget (“it irks, it annoys”).

verb fikes · fiking · fiked

  1. ambitransitive To feign; dissemble; flatter.

fike²

Rhymes with -aɪk

Where it comes from

From Middle English fiken, fyken (“to fidget, move about restlessly, hasten away”), from Old Norse fíkjast (“to be eager or restless”), from fíka (“to climb, move”). Cognate with Scots fyke (“to move about restlessly, fidget, itch”), Norwegian fika (“to strive, take trouble”), Icelandic fikinn (“eager, greedy”). Related to fig and fidget.

verb fikes · fiking · fiked · fick · fyke

  1. intransitive To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
  2. transitive To give trouble to; vex; perplex.

noun fikes · fick · fyke

  1. Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.
  2. UK, dialectal Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.

fike³

Rhymes with -aɪk

Where it comes from

From Middle English fike, from Old English fīc (“fig, fig-tree, fig-disease, venereal ulcer, hemorrhoids”), from Proto-Germanic *fīkaz, *fīgō (“fig”), from Latin fīcus, fīca (“fig, fig-tree”). Cognate with Dutch vijg (“fig”), German Feige (“fig”), Swedish fikon (“fig”), Icelandic fikja (“ficus”). More at fig.

noun fikes

  1. obsolete A fig.
  2. UK, dialectal A sore place on the foot.

Fike⁴

proper noun Fikes

  1. A surname.

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@misc{fike_2026,
  title = {fike},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fike},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}