figginess

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noun

The state of containing or resembling figs.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounfigginess (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state of containing or resembling figs.

    My first reaction to the idea was that nothing could improve on solitary figginess or raspberriness, so why bother?

    2002, Joan Dye Gussow, This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 126

Origin

From figgy + -ness. By surface analysis, fig + -y + -ness.

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APA

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Chicago

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