fico
Americannoun
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ficoes
plural
noun
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a worthless trifle
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another word for fig 1
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fico
1570–80; < Italian fico, fica fig 1
Example Sentences
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Did I not wot well that she cared not a fico for me?
From The Armourer's Prentices by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Now, out upon your tender conscience," said Lord Dalgarno; "and the fico for such outcasts of Parnassus!
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Earl of Leicester," said Teazle; "pr'ythee what sort of a soldier is he to oppose against the experienced captains and sturdy infantry of Spain?
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry
No doubt there would be gibing at White's, and shrugging at Almack's; but a fico, too, for that--it would not hurt him at Guadeloupe, and little at Genoa.
From The Castle Inn by Weyman, Stanley John
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