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figging
We have found lemma(root) word of figging : fig.
Definitions
[fɪɡ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a soft pear-shaped fruit with sweet dark flesh and many small seeds, eaten fresh or dried
- the deciduous Old World tree or shrub which bears figs
Phrases:
- not give a fig
Origin
:
Middle English: from Old French figue, from Provençal fig(u)a, based on Latin ficus
[fɪɡ], (Verb)
Definitions:
- dress up (someone) to look smart
(e.g: he was figged out as fine as fivepence, with white trousers and rings and chains)
Phrases:
- full fig
Origin
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late 17th century: variant of obsolete feague ‘liven up’ (earlier ‘whip’); perhaps related to German fegen ‘sweep, thrash’; compare with fake. An early sense of the verb was ‘fill the head with nonsense’; later (early 19th century) ‘cause (a horse) to be lively and carry its tail well (by applying ginger to its anus)’; hence ‘smarten up’
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