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    A soft, sweet fruit full of tiny seeds, usually purple or green on the outside, that grows on fig trees - eaten fresh or dried. The phrase 'fig leaf' is used to describe something that is meant to hide or cover up something , like a weak excuse used as a fig leaf for a bad decision.

    無花果;「fig leaf」=遮羞布、用來掩蓋問題的藉口

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原始詞典資料19 筆記錄

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Figname詞源 1

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    The 95th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Figname詞源 2

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    slangFigueroa Street (street in Los Angeles)

fignoun詞源 1/fɪɡ/

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    The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.

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    A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.

    • And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
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    The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.

    • I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
    • About Rebecca and Jos he did not care a fig.
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    A Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana", (cultivar of Musa acuminata)

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    datedA raisin (dried grape).

    • figgy duff - boiled pudding with raisins
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    A small piece of tobacco.

    • “You may flog, and welcome, master,” said he, “if you'll give me a fig o' tibbacky.”
    • This was followed by his presenting his sable acquaintance with a fig of tobacco, whereupon, instead of thanking the donor in the usual way, the black signified his gratitude by throwing a spear at twenty or thirty yards' distance.
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    A fico, a contemptuous gesture.

figverb詞源 1/fɪɡ/

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    obsoleteTo insult with a fico, a contemptuous gesture.

    • When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.
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    obsoleteTo put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.

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    datedTo develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.

    • For filling figged soaps silicate of potash is best adapted, as soda prevents in a measure the proper crystallization. [...] Artificially figged soap [...makes] a very close imitation of the naturally figged soap.
    • Figging is usually considered to indicate a good quality of soft soap, but such is really not the case. A first-class soft soap can be made which will not fig, while, on the other hand, a poor soap can be produced which will fig.

figverb詞源 2/fɪɡ/

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    To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.

fignoun詞源 3/fɪɡ/

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    datedA person's figure; dress or appearance.

figverb詞源 3/fɪɡ/

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    datedTo dress; to get oneself up a certain way.

figverb詞源 4/fɪɡ/

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

    • Ginger, a showy, fast horse — as if he had been figged with ginger under his tail; a red-haired man.
    • He must be "figged." Figging consists in pushing a piece of crushed ginger into the return of the wretched creature — a practice which is now illegal, and of which information should be given to the R.S.P.C.A. whenever detected.

fignoun詞源 4/fɪɡ/

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    The piece of ginger root used in figging.

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