单词 | figging |
释义 | figgingn. The granulation produced in soft soap by the addition of tallow in the manufacture. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1146 When tallow is added,..the object is to produce white and somewhat solid grains of stearic soap in the transparent mass, called figging, because the soap then resembles the granular texture of a fig. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > as lemmasˈfigging ˈfigging n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [noun] > jogging or jolting to and fro or up and down figging1577 jolting1648 jetting1676 jiggeting1687 jigging1806 bumping1842 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adjective] > jogging or jolting to and fro or up and down figging1577 jigging1590 jolting1598 jiggeting1687 jolty1835 jaggy1842 jiggety1876 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 6 Not medling with figging, chopping, and changing, nor seeking their liuing by handycraftes. 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 190 Your violent fiskings and figgings about those your idle vagaries. a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iii. 38 Their short figging little shittle-corke-heels. a1659 F. Osborne Observ. Turks in Wks. (1673) 334 Their daily figging up and down the streets..unattended. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxii. 271 Their..figging Itch, wrigling Mordicancy. a1734 R. North Lives of Norths I. 99 His figging about at the first entrance. ˈfigging ˈfigging n. (also figging-law) (see quot. 1785). ΚΠ 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Figging law, the art of picking pockets. < n.1839 as lemmas |
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