Fig Definition

fĭg
figged, figging
noun
Any of a genus (Ficus) of fig-bearing trees of the mulberry family, esp. any of the many cultivated varieties of a tree (F. carica) bearing edible figs.
Webster's New World
The hollow, pear-shaped false fruit (syconium) of the fig tree, with sweet, pulpy flesh containing numerous tiny, seedlike true fruits (achenes)
Webster's New World
Any of several plants bearing similar fruit.
American Heritage
A trifling amount; little bit.
Not worth a fig.
Webster's New World
The fruit of such a plant.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • Ficus carica
  • common fig tree
  • common fig
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abbreviation
Figurative.
Webster's New World
Figuratively.
Webster's New World
Figure(s)
Webster's New World
verb
figging
To dress showily.
Webster's New World
(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
Wiktionary
(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
Wiktionary

(intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.

Wiktionary
idiom
in full fig
  • completely dressed or outfitted, esp. in a showy manner
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Fig

Noun

Singular:
fig
Plural:
figs

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Fig

  • in full fig

Origin of Fig

  • From Middle English fige, fygge (also fyke, from Old English fīc, see fike), from Anglo-Norman figue, from Old Provençal figa, from Vulgar Latin fīca (“fig”), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree”), from a pre-Indo European language, perhaps Phoenician [script?] (pagh, “ripe fig”) (compare Classical Hebrew פַּגָּה (paggâ, “early fallen fig”), Classical Syriac ܦܓܐ (paggāʾ), dialectal Arabic - (faġġ), [script?] (fiġġ)).

    From Wiktionary

  • Perhaps from fig to trot out a horse in lively condition, dress up variant of feague to make a horse lively probably from Dutch vegen to brush from Middle Dutch vēghen

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Another Semitic root (compare Akkadian [script?] (tīʾu, “fig”)) was borrowed into Ancient Greek as σῦκον (sỹkon) (Boeotian τῦκον (tỹkon)) and Armenian as թուզ (tʿuz); whence English sycophant.

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  • Middle English from Old French figue from Old Provençal figa from Vulgar Latin fīca from Latin fīcus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Variation of fike.

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