Definition & Meaning | English word FIGGING

Definitions of FIGGING

1. The insertion of ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra, applied to people as a punishment (typically in BDSM), or to horses to make them deceptively lively (feaguing).
2. (soap-making, dated) (Development of) white streaks or granulations in soap, a natural development in some soaps once considered a sign of quality and therefore sometimes artificially imitated. [mid-19th]
3. inflection of fig

Examples of Using FIGGING in a Sentence

• Historically, the process, the purpose of which was often to make an older horse behave like one that was younger or to liven up a sick or weakened animal temporarily, was known as feaguing (from which the modern term figging derives), and involved a piece of ginger, onion, pepper or tobacco.

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