fike

Meanings

1. To feign; dissemble; flatter.

1. To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
2. To give trouble to; vex; perplex.

1. Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.
2. Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.

1. A fig.
2. A sore place on the foot.

1. A surname.

Etymology

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”).