fig
To develop, or cause to develop, white streaks or granulationsTo develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
» We don't have any more figs.
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
6 senses(dated)To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
(intransitive)To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
(colloquial, dated, transitive)To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
(rare, transitive)To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.
(obsolete)To insult with a fico, a contemptuous gesture.
(obsolete)To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
Examples
667 sentencesWe don't have any more figs.
Tom gave these figs to us.
Is it OK to eat figs every day?
Figs are very expensive right now.
ruИнжир сейчас очень дорогой. — Wezel
Can we buy some figs?
Origin
From Middle English fige, fygge (also fyke, from Old English fīc, see fike), borrowed fromFrom 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.
Variation of fike.
See figging.
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Forms
figs, figging, figged, figgedSynonyms
1 synonymsWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle