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fig

Pronunciation: /fɪɡ/

The English word “fig” has 15 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
  2. A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
  3. The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
  4. A Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana", (cultivar of Musa acuminata)
  5. A raisin (dried grape).
  6. A small piece of tobacco.
  7. A fico, a contemptuous gesture.
  8. A person's figure; dress or appearance.
  9. The piece of ginger root used in figging.

verb

  1. To insult with a fico, a contemptuous gesture.
  2. To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
  3. To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
  4. To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
  5. To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
  6. To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.

Etymology

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…

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