fig
Plural: figs
Noun
- a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
- "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2"
- Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
- a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi
- fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried
- The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
- A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
- The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
- A Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana", (cultivar of Musa acuminata)
- A raisin (dried grape).
- A small piece of tobacco.
- Abbreviation of figure (“diagram or illustration”).
- A person's figure; dress or appearance.
- The piece of ginger root used in figging.
Verb
Verb Forms: figged, figging, figs
- To adorn or dress up; to make oneself showy.
- To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
- To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
- To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
- To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
- To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
- To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.
Examples
- He tried to FIG up his dull tile rack with a strategic word choice, but it was still grim.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya, common fig, common fig tree, Ficus carica, figure, Libyan Fighting Group, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Libyan Islamic Group, ginger
Scrabble Score: 7
fig: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfig: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fig: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary