different between fike vs fice

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English fiken (“to feign, dissemble, flatter”), from Old English fician (“to wheedle, flatter”) (also found in compound befician (“to deceive”)), from Proto-Germanic *fik?n? (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *pey?- (“ill-meaning, evil-minded, treacherous, hostile, bad”). Related to Old English ?efic (“fraud, deceit, deception”), Old English f?cen (“deceit, fraud, treachery, sin, evil, crime, blemish, fault”), Middle High German veichen (“dissembling, deceit, fraud”), Latin piget (“it irks, it annoys”).

Verb

fike (third-person singular simple present fikes, present participle fiking, simple past and past participle fiked)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fiken, fyken (“to fidget, move about restlessly, hasten away”), from Old Norse fíkjast (“to be eager or restless”), from fíka (“to climb, move”). Cognate with Scots fyke (“to move about restlessly, fidget, itch”), Norwegian fika (“to strive, take trouble”), Icelandic fikinn (“eager, greedy”). Related to fig and fidget.

Alternative forms

• fick
• fyke (Scotland)

Verb

fike (third-person singular simple present fikes, present participle fiking, simple past and past participle fiked)

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

Noun

fike (plural fikes)

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

Derived terms

• fikery
• fiky

Etymology 3

From Middle English fike, from Old English f?c (“fig, fig-tree, fig-disease, venereal ulcer, hemorrhoids”), from Proto-Germanic *f?kaz, *f?g? (“fig”), from Latin f?cus, f?ca (“fig, fig-tree”). Cognate with Dutch vijg (“fig”), German Feige (“fig”), Swedish fikon (“fig”), Icelandic fikja (“ficus”). More at fig.

Noun

fike (plural fikes)

1. (obsolete) A fig.
2. (Britain dialectal) A sore place on the foot.

Anagrams

• Kief, kief, kife

Ese

Noun

fike

1. chewing gum

Middle English

Noun

fike

1. Alternative form of fyke

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fíka, fíkja, from Latin ficus. Akin to English fig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²fi?k?/

Noun

fike f (definite singular fika, indefinite plural fiker, definite plural fikene)

1. a fig

Synonyms

• fiken

References

• “fike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Alternative forms

• feist, fise, fist

Noun

fice (plural fices)

1. (US regional) A small, snappy, belligerent, mixed-breed dog.
   • 1805 October 3, Lorenzo Dow, journal, in Orrin Scofield (ed.), Perambulations of Cosmopolite; or Travels and Labors of Lorenzo Dow, in Europe and America, Orrin Scofield (1842), page 178,

     He wrote a letter to Bob Sample, one of the most popular A-double-L-part preachers in the country, who like a little fice, or cur dog, would rail behind my back.

   • a1849, James W. C. Pennington, The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States, Second Edition, Charles Gilpin (1849), pages 33–34,

     Besides inflicting upon my own excited imagination the belief that I made noise enough to be heard by the inmates of the house who were likely to be rising at the time, I had the misfortune to attract the notice of a little house-dog, such as we call in that part of the world a “fice,’ ^[sic] on account of its being not only the smallest species of the canine race, but also, because it is the most saucy, noisy, and teasing of all dogs.

   • 1873, Joseph S. Williams, Old Times in West Tennessee: Reminiscences—Semi-historic—of Pioneer Life and the Early Emigrant Settlers in the Big Hatchie Country, W. G. Cheeney, page 260,

     One August afternoon he was returning from his dinner, when near the public square, he came to a little white fice dog and another little dog grining ^[sic] and growling at each other on the sidewalk.

   • 1955, John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, Harper and Brothers Publishers, page 114

     At Belton, an armed thug suddenly arose and started toward him. But old Sam Houston, looking him right in the eye, put each hand on his own pistols: "Ladies and Gentlemen, keep your seats. It is nothing but a fice barking at the lion in his den.

   • 1995, George Cauley, quoted in Mark Derr, Dog’s Best Friend: Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship, University of Chicago Press (2004), ?ISBN, page 57,

     When I was growing up, everybody had a little dog they called a feist or fice and a big yard dog, a cur.

Latin

Noun

f?ce

1. vocative singular of f?cus

Spanish

Verb

fice

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of facer.