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Fig vs Tig - What's the difference?

fig | tig |

As nouns the difference between fig and tig

is that fig is a fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics while tig is tag, the children's game.

As a verb fig

is to insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.

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)
  • 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
    • I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter!
    Derived terms
    * caprifig * fig leaf * figgy * figtree * not give a fig

    Verb

    (figg)
  • (obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
  • * Shakespeare
    • When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard.
  • (obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)

    External links

    * ("fig" on Wikipedia) * (pedia) * (Ficus)

    Etymology 2

    Variation of fike.

    Verb

    (figg)
  • To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.

    • Etymology 3

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    tig

    English

    Noun

  • (Ireland) tag, the children's game.
  • * 1916 , , Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 43
    • One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes : long and white and thin and cold and soft.
  • A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

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