Meaning

2 senses

  1. (Northern England, intransitive)To fidget about; wriggle

  2. (Northern England, intransitive)To potter about seeking a living

Origin

From fig (“to move briskly; go to and fro”, a variant of fike) + -le (frequentative suffix

From fig (“to move briskly; go to and fro”, a variant of fike) + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare also Middle English fikelen (“to wag the head or tail; fawn”).

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Forms

figgles, figgling, figgled, figgled
Base formfiggle · to figgle
3rd person singularfiggles
Present participlefiggling
Past simplefiggled
Past participlefiggled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfiggle
he, she, itfiggles

Past simpleLesson

all personsfiggled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave figgled
he, she, ithas figgled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill figgle

Word family

1 related words
Relatedfike

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fiftyA1figfightB1fighterA2figment

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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