Why Give a Fig?
...The original sense of figging came, most people think, from an equestrian practice of placing a piece of ginger in the horse’s anus before ceremonies or parades. Apparently parades are much ado about a horse’s ass. The effect of the ginger in the horse’s ass is that the horse keeps his tail up in that nice high curl of the well-dressed steed. The word to feague, for you etymologists, goes back to the German word for "sweep" (as in "to sweep something away") which arrived at the idea of "drive" (as in "to drive something forward"). Since a horse is driven onward by a whip, the word "feague" soon came to mean (sadists, tune in) "to whip or to beat." But the word retained the meaning of spurring someone on (or a horse in this case). So the word has had a long and colorful set of applications as "feague" and "feaguing."
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