Question #150656. Asked by
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Last updated Feb 16 2024.
Originally posted Feb 16 2024 9:24 PM.
The Middle English name had several spellings, including ffygey, fygeye, fygee, figge, and figee. The latter is a 15th-century conflation with a French dish of fish and curds called figé, meaning "curdled" in Old French. But it too came to mean a "figgy" dish, involving cooked figs, boiled in wine or otherwise.
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