Obs. [? repr. OE. *fician [? fíc-); cf. OE. befician (? befícian) to deceive, ȝefic deceit; prob. cognate with FAKEN.] intr. To flatter, fawn, act or speak deceitfully.

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a. 1225.  St. Marher. (1862), 13. Thu fikest quoth ha ful thing.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 206. Þe scorpiun … fikeð mid te heaued & stingeð mid te teile.

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a. 1250.  Meid. Maregrete, xiii. Meidan Maregrete nulle we nout mitte fike.

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a. 1325.  Advice to Women, in Wright, Specimens of Lyric Poetry, 46.

        Wymmon, war the with the swyke,
That feir ant freoly ys to fyke.

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  Hence Fiking ppl. a., fawning.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 256. Leouere me beoð hire wunden þen uikiinde cosses.

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