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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To feign; dissemble; flatter.
  • To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion; be restless; fidget; be nervous.
  • To hurry away.
  • To give trouble to; vex; perplex.
  • noun Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.
  • noun Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.
  • noun A fig.
  • noun A sore place on the foot.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See fyke.

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  • verb transitive, intransitive To feign; dissemble; flatter.
  • noun obsolete A fig.
  • noun A sore place on the foot.
  • verb intransitive To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
  • verb transitive To give trouble to; vex; perplex.
  • noun Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.
  • noun Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.

Etymologies

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From Middle English fiken ("to feign, dissemble, flatter"), from Old English fician ("to wheedle, flatter") (also found in compound befician ("to deceive")), from Proto-Germanic *fikōnan (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *pÁig-, *peig- (“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").

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From Middle English fike, from Old English fīc ("fig, fig-tree, fig-disease, venereal ulcer, hemorrhoids"), from Proto-Germanic *fika, *figa (“fig”), from Latin fīca, fīcus ("fig, fig-tree"). Cognate with Dutch vijg ("fig"), German Feige ("fig"), Swedish fikon ("fig"), Icelandic fikja ("ficus"). More at fig.

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From 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.

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variants (1)

Variants

  1. fyke

rhymes (29)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Dike
  2. Ike
  3. Mike
  4. Pike
  5. Reich
  6. Spike
  7. Tyke
  8. Vandyke
  9. alike
  10. bike
  11. dike
  12. dislike
  13. dyke
  14. fyke
  15. hike
  16. like
  17. lyke
  18. mike
  19. pike
  20. psych
  21. rike
  22. spike
  23. strike
  24. tike
  25. tyke
  26. unlike
  27. vandyke
  28. wike
  29. wyke

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  • ruzuzu commented on the word fike

    I love these three from the Century:

    n. Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.

    n. A fig.

    n. A sore place on the foot.

    March 23, 2012