fig tree

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fig1

▶noun

• 1 a soft pear-shaped fruit with sweet dark flesh and many small seeds.

• 2 (also fig tree) the deciduous tree or shrub which bears figs. [Ficus carica.]

  ■ used in names of related plants, e.g. strangling fig.

– phrases
not give (or care) a fig not care at all.

– origin ME: from OFr. figue, from Provençal fig(u)a, based on L. ficus.

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fig2

▶noun (in phr. full fig) informal the complete set of clothes appropriate to an occasion or profession.

– origin C17 (as v.): var. of obs. feague ‘liven up’ (earlier ‘whip’), perh. rel. to Ger. fegen ‘sweep, thrash’; cf. fake1.