fike
/fˈaɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.78 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.
noun
Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.
British usage
name
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: fiken, fician, *fikōn, *fikōną, *peyǵ-, fíkjast
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
fikery
fiky