fig
noun
[ fɪɡ ]
• 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.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French figue, from Provençal fig(u)a, based on Latin ficus .
fig
verb
• dress up (someone) to look smart.
• "he was figged out as fine as fivepence, with white trousers and rings and chains"
Origin:
late 17th century: variant of obsolete feague ‘liven up’ (earlier ‘whip’); perhaps related to German fegen ‘sweep, thrash’; compare with fake1. 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’.
fig.
abbreviation
• figure.
• "see fig.34"
