ficulnean

F4I1C3U1L1N1E1A1N1

adjective

Worthless.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveficulnean (comparative more ficulnean, superlative most ficulnean)

comparative more ficulnean · superlative most ficulnean

  1. 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 278

    However 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

  1. ['lafīculneus
  2. Latinfīculneus
  3. Englishficulnean

Borrowed from Latin fīculneus (“of the fig or fig tree”).

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APA

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Chicago

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