† figon.
Obsolete.
= fico n. in various senses.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > fig > [noun]
fig?c1225
figo1589
anjeer1854
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > paltry, mean, or contemptible
wretch?a1300
flea1388
figc1450
figo1589
fico1598
paltering1611
fig's enda1616
mockado1740
two pennyworth1851
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > object of contempt > type of something contemptible
figc1450
dish-clouta1529
figo1589
weak sauce1993
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > fig
fig?c1225
figo1589
porphyritis1706
Marseilles1725
Turkey fig1866
1589 Voy. Sir F. Drake in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. sig. Mmm8v A fruite which they [sc. natives of the Moluccas] call Figo.
1589 Voy. Sir F. Drake in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. sig. Mmm9v Lemmons, cucumbers, coquos, figu, sagu.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. i. 61 Figa [1623 The Figo] for thee then.
1640 H. Glapthorne Ladies Priviledge v. sig. Ji You do not mean to make a gul of me, a figo for a thousand.
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