Noun: fico
| Singular | fico |
| Plural | ficoes |
Sample Sentences
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a fico for the phrase. [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
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As for these chicken-hearted tremblers,' he continued, squinting askance at our companions, 'a fico for them! [1894, Stanley John Weyman, “XXI. Among the Wounded”, in My Lady Rotha:]
Nouns inflected like fico
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian fico (“a fig”), from Latin fīcus. Doublet of fig. See: Italian Nouns '
fico', Latin Nouns '
fīcus'.