fig

Meaning

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. The Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana", (cultivar of Musa acuminata)
5. A raisin (dried grape).
6. A small piece of tobacco.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
2. (obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
3. To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.

Verb

To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.

Verb

To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.

Verb

To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.

Synonyms

fig tree

common fig

syconium

figure

Ficus carica

figs

common fig tree

floor

form

get up

lie

plot

preserved

red

ripe

spirits

tree

🌳

banyan tree

fico

furbish up

edible fig

neem

array

cluster fig

chart

💹

diagram

dried

falsehood

ficus

fig-tree

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɪɡ/

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 (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.