† ˈfig-dote Obs.
Also 5 -dode, 7 -date.
[Conjectured to be ad. Pg. figo doudo, wild (lit. ‘mad’) fig, = Fr. figue folle. Cf. Du. vijghe dote, dodesche vijgh (Kilian) in same sense. In the S.W. counties dough-fig is used for a dried fig, the word fig alone meaning a raisin.]
An inferior kind of fig.
| 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 351 Item, for a topet of fygge dodes ij.s. 1552 Huloet, Figge dote, busicon. 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. xxii. 204 Let Dioscorides commend his..yellow figs..and Pratensis his Mariscas or Fig-dates. |