fike
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪk
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English fiken (“to feign, dissemble, flatter”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English fician (“to wheedle, flatter”) (also found in compound befician (“to deceive”)), from Proto-Germanic *fikōną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyǵ- (“ill-meaning, evil-minded, treacherous, hostile, bad”). Related to Old English ġefic (“fraud, deceit, deception”), Old English fācen (“deceit, fraud, treachery, sin, evil, crime, blemish, fault”), Middle High German veichen (“dissembling, deceit, fraud”), Latin piget (“it irks, it annoys”).
Verb
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- (transitive, intransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English fiken, fyken (“to fidget, move about restlessly, hasten away”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse fíkjast (“to be eager or restless”), from fíka (“to climb, move”). Cognate with Scots fyke (“to move about restlessly, fidget, itch”), Norwegian fika (“to strive, take trouble”), Icelandic fikinn (“eager, greedy”). Related to fig and fidget.
Alternative forms
Verb
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- (intransitive) To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
- (transitive) To give trouble to; vex; perplex.
Noun
fike (plural fikes)
- Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.
- (UK dialectal) Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From Middle English fike, from Old English fīc (“fig, fig-tree, fig-disease, venereal ulcer, hemorrhoids”), from Proto-Germanic *fīkaz, *fīgō (“fig”), from Latin fīcus, fīca (“fig, fig-tree”). Cognate with Dutch vijg (“fig”), German Feige (“fig”), Swedish fikon (“fig”), Icelandic fikja (“ficus”). More at fig.
Noun
fike (plural fikes)
Anagrams
Ese
Noun
fike
Middle English
Noun
fike
- Alternative form of fyke
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse fíka, fíkja, from Latin ficus. Akin to English fig.
Pronunciation
Noun
fike f (definite singular fika, indefinite plural fiker, definite plural fikene)
- a fig
Synonyms
References
- “fike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- Rhymes:English/aɪk
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- nn:Fruits