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Search phrase: fig

Plays

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
Antony and Cleopatra	AC V.ii.349	This is an aspic's trail; and these fig leaves	This is an Aspickes traile, / And these Figge-leaues
Henry IV Part 2	2H4 V.iii.118	When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me, like	When Pistoll lyes, do this, and figge-me, like
Henry V	H5 III.vi.58	The fig of Spain!	The Figge of Spaine.
Henry VI Part 2	2H6 II.iii.67	and a fig for Peter!	and a figge for Peter.
King Edward III	E3 IV.vi.9	Courage, Artois! A fig for feathered shafts	Courage Artoys, a fig for feathered shafts,
King John	KJ II.i.162	Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig.	Giue yt a plum, a cherry, and a figge,
Othello	Oth I.iii.316	Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or	Vertue? A figge, 'tis in our selues that we are thus, or

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Glossary

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fico	fig
fig	used in expressions of contempt
fig	word used along with a rude gesture [of the thumb between the first two fingers of a fist]
fig	Q1 alternative to 'jig'
sycamore	variety of fig tree [a Mediterranean species]

Thesaurus

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fig	fico
fig tree	sycamore

Themes and Topics

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... fig for a 2h6 ii iii 67 a fig for peter contempt often expressed ...

Words Families

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
FICO	BASIC	see FIG
FIG	BASIC	fig adj, fig n, fig v
FIG	INTENSITY	fico n, figo n, fig's-end n

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