fike
English
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -aɪk
Etymology 1
editFrom Middle English fiken (“to feign, dissemble, flatter”), from Old English fician (“to wheedle, flatter”) (also found in compound befician (“to deceive”)), from Proto-West Germanic *fikōn, 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
editfike (third-person singular simple present fikes, present participle fiking, simple past and past participle fiked)
- (transitive, intransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English fiken, fyken (“to fidget, move about restlessly, hasten away”), from 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
editVerb
editfike (third-person singular simple present fikes, present participle fiking, simple past and past participle fiked)
- (intransitive) To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
- (transitive) To give trouble to; vex; perplex.
Noun
editfike (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
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editEtymology 3
editFrom 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
editfike (plural fikes)
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editfike
Middle English
editNoun
editfike
- Alternative form of fyke
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse fíka, fíkja, from Latin ficus. Akin to English fig.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfike f (definite singular fika, indefinite plural fiker, definite plural fikene)
- a fig
Synonyms
editReferences
edit- “fike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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- nn:Fruits