fig

noun
🔊/fɪɡ/
🔊/fɪɡ/
Idioms
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  1. a soft sweet fruit that is full of small seeds and often eaten dried无花果
    • a fig tree无花果树
    Topics Plants and treesc2, Foodc2
    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French figue, from Provençal fig(u)a, based on Latin ficus.
Idioms
not care/give a fig (for somebody/something)
  1. (old-fashioned, British English, informal) not to care at all about something; to think that something is not important对…丝毫不在乎;完全不把…放在心上;认为…毫无价值