fig
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noun- 1.
(abbreviation, alt of)Abbreviation of figure.
fig. 2.1
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The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
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A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
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The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
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A Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana", (cultivar of Musa acuminata)
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(Newfoundland, dated)A raisin (dried grape).
figgy duff - boiled pudding with raisins
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A small piece of tobacco.
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A fico, a contemptuous gesture.
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(abbreviation, alt of)Abbreviation of figure (“diagram or illustration”).
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(colloquial, dated)A person's figure; dress or appearance.
- 11.
The piece of ginger root used in figging.
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adjective- 1.
(abbreviation, alt of, not comparable)(chiefly lexicography) Abbreviation of figurative.
(fig.) a fat bank account
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verb- 1.
(obsolete)To insult with a fico, a contemptuous gesture.
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(obsolete)To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
- 3.
(dated)(soap-making, dated) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
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(intransitive)To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
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(abbreviation, alt of)Abbreviation of figure (“to calculate; to think; to come to understand”).
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(colloquial, dated, transitive)To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
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(rare, transitive)To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.
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From Middle English fige, fygge (also fyke, from fīc, see fike), borrowed from figue, borrowed from Old French figue, from figa, from *fīca (fig), from Latin fīcus (fig tree), from a pre-Indo European language, perhaps 𐤐𐤂 (compare early fallen fig, ܦܓܐ, dialectal, فِجّ). (Another root (compare 𒈠) was borrowed into as σῦκον (whence sycophant;