figgum
English
Etymology
Uncertain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɪɡəm/
Noun
figgum
- (obsolete) A juggler's trick; conjuring.
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass
- The devil is the author of wicked figgum.
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for figgum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)