Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Fico

(See Fig.)

“Fico for the phrase.”

Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, i.3.

“I see contempt marching forth, giving me the fico with his thombe in his mouth.” —Wit's Miserie (1596).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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