fico
Americannoun
plural
ficoesnoun
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a worthless trifle
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another word for fig 1
Etymology
Origin of fico
1570–80; < Italian fico, fica fig 1
Example Sentences
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A fico for your small poetic ravers, Your Hunts, your Tennysons, your Milnes, and these!
From The Bon Gaultier Ballads by Doyle, Richard
A fico for the world and worldlings base.'
From Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Did I not wot well that she cared not a fico for me?
From The Armourer's Prentices by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Convey, the wise it call: steal? foh; a fico for the phrase.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew
We shall be off abroad, not later than the 8th June, and among the everlasting hills, a fico for your controversies!
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard
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