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fig noun- hardly anything at all UK, 1400
- “But a fig to them all!” cried Linden-Evarts, breaking into Jefferson’s reverie. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 69, 1964
- an effeminate male US
An amelioration of FAG. - — San Francisco Examiner: People, p. 8, 27 October 1963: “What a ‘Z’! The astonishing private language of Bay Area teenagers”
- (of chewing tobacco) a plug CANADA, 1862
- All I can offer you right now is a chaw off my fig o’ tobacco. — Thomas Raddall, The Wings of Night, p. 78, 1956
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