Fid vs Fig - What's the difference?
fid | fig |
(nautical) A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike.
(nautical) A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship).
A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.
A small thick piece of anything.
A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
A naval euphemism for "penis", derived from the similarity of each of the above to the male reproductive organ.
A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
A small piece of tobacco.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
As nouns the difference between fid and fig
is that fid is a pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing. Compare marlinespike while fig is a fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.As verbs the difference between fid and fig
is that fid is to support a topmast using a fid while fig is to insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.fid
English
(wikipedia fid)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ---- ==Volapük==Declension
(vo-decl-noun)Derived terms
* fidacem ----fig
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fige, fygge (also fyke, from (etyl) )Andreas Franz and Wilhelm Schimper, Plant Geography Upon a Physiological Basis , volume 2 (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1902), page 100. Another (etyl) root (compare (etyl) ; whence (etyl) sycophant.Noun
(en noun)- I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
Derived terms
* caprifig * fig leaf * figgy * figtree * not give a figVerb
(figg)- When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.