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fike | fice |

As a verb fike

is (ambitransitive) to feign; dissemble; flatter or fike can be to move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.

As a noun fike

is restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance or fike can be (obsolete) a fig.

As an initialism fice is

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fike

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(fik)
  • (ambitransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) fiken, . Related to (l) and (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l) (Scotland)

    Verb

    (fik)
  • To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
  • To give trouble to; vex; perplex.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.
  • Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) fike, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A fig.
  • A sore place on the foot.

    • fice

    English

    Alternative forms

    * feist, fise, fist

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, snappy, belligerent, mixed-breed dog.
  • * 1805 October 3, Lorenzo Dow, journal, in Orrin Scofield (ed.), Perambulations of Cosmopolite; or Travels and Labors of Lorenzo Dow, in Europe and America , Orrin Scofield (1842), page 178,
    • He wrote a letter to Bob Sample, one of the most popular A-double-L-part preachers in the country, who like a little fice , or cur dog, would rail behind my back.
  • * a''1849, James W. C. Pennington, ''The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States , Second Edition, Charles Gilpin (1849), pages 33–34,
    • Besides inflicting upon my own excited imagination the belief that I made noise enough to be heard by the inmates of the house who were likely to be rising at the time, I had the misfortune to attract the notice of a little house-dog, such as we call in that part of the world a “fice ,’ on account of its being not only the smallest species of the canine race, but also, because it is the most saucy, noisy, and teasing of all dogs.
  • * 1873, Joseph S. Williams, Old Times in West Tennessee: Reminiscences—Semi-historic—of Pioneer Life and the Early Emigrant Settlers in the Big Hatchie Country , W. G. Cheeney, page 260,
    • One August afternoon he was returning from his dinner, when near the public square, he came to a little white fice dog and another little dog grining and growling at each other on the sidewalk.
  • * 1955, John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage , Harper and Brothers Publishers, page 114
    • At Belton, an armed thug suddenly arose and started toward him. But old Sam Houston, looking him right in the eye, put each hand on his own pistols: "Ladies and Gentlemen, keep your seats. It is nothing but a fice barking at the lion in his den.
  • * 1995, George Cauley, quoted in Mark Derr, Dog’s Best Friend: Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship , University of Chicago Press (2004), ISBN 0-226-14280-9, page 57,
    • When I was growing up, everybody had a little dog they called a feist or fice and a big yard dog, a cur.
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