Meanings
comparative more ficulnean · superlative most ficulnean
- rareWorthless.
I don't even need to hear any more of that ficulnean blather to know that this is not the place to develop that subject.
2021, Ted Heise, “Wake Forest: can this juggarnaut be stopped?”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet)2 more examples
So alſo the Ficulnean Arguments and Infrunite Pamphlets of the Neſtorian Arianiſm and Arian Eutychianiſm wholly outſhun and outdone […]
1716, Myles Davies, Athenae Britannicae, Or, A Critical History of the Oxford and Cambridge Writers and Writings, page 278However false the ficulnean etymology may be, it is historically true that Fécamp owed its monastery and its prosperity to its possession of the miraculous relic.
1900, Percy Dearmer, Highways and Byways in Normandy, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 340
Origin
- ['lafīculneus
- Latinfīculneus
- Englishficulnean
Borrowed from Latin fīculneus (“of the fig or fig tree”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
ficulnean. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ficulnean
“ficulnean.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ficulnean. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ficulnean,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ficulnean.
Source: ficulnean on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.