fig
noun
- edible fruit of Ficus carica
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /fɪɡ/
name
Etymology: Clipping.
- Figueroa Street (street in Los Angeles)
noun
Etymology: See figging.
- The piece of ginger root used in figging.
verb
Etymology: See figging.
- To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.
“Ginger, a showy, fast horse — as if he had been figged with ginger under his tail; a red-haired man.”
“He must be "figged." Figging consists in pushing a piece of crushed ginger into the return of the wretched creature — a practice which is now illegal, and of which information should be given to the R.S.P.C.A. whenever detected.”