Added 10 October 2026
fike
verb
Latin root: piget Wiktionary
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verb
noun
- Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.
- Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.
noun
Origin
From Middle English fiken (“to feign, dissemble, flatter”), from Old English fician (“to wheedle, flatter”) (also found in compound befician (“to deceive”)), from Proto-West Germanic *fikōn, from Proto-Germanic *fikōną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyǵ- (“ill-meaning, evil-minded, treacherous, hostile, bad”). Related to Old English ġefic (“fraud, deceit, deception”), Old English fācen (“deceit, fraud, treachery, sin, evil, crime, blemish, fault”), Middle High German veichen (“dissembling, deceit, fraud”), Latin piget (“it irks, it annoys”).
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