Fig Diamond

FIG DIAMOND

March 22 at 6:19pm · Comment · Like

Genevieve McClean fig diamond 1.

NOUN

Encapsulating the hardest gem with the softest fruit. Any naturally occurring lobe that hold these qualities of extreme. ie: something of extraordinary beauty which would otherwise be a glob.

1. e.g. "He did not give a (sic) fig diamond for the advice of the mayor"

2. also fig diamond tree. A typically colorless and crystalline variant of the old world tree or shrub that bears this fruit.

3. In extended and metaphysical use with reference to the brilliance of form and hardness of the growth.

fig diamond 2.

Informal

In phrase "Fully fig diamond" Smart fruity clothes as would befit a majestic being. So avant-garde as to turn heads and look bizarro in public, but the person wearing the ensemble is able to carry it off. That woman walked up the street looking fully fig diamond...

PHRASES

"Fig Diamond in the rough". A person, generally of amazing power but who lacks in education manners or cultural or agricultural status. e.g. Someone who works wonders with horses and although capable will not escape tawdry belittling tasks alongside simple lower class workers.

" higo del diamante ". I don't give a "higo del diamante' for your offer" (accompanied by obscene gesture of thumb between second and third fingers, (archaic)

ORIGIN

late 17th Cent. fig (as a verb)

variant of obsolete feague (liven up) (earlier (whip)) perhaps related to German Fegen (sweep, thrash), compare with FAKE,

an early sense of the verb was (fill the head with a miraculous nonsense; later (early 19 Cent. ) (Cause a (horse) to be lively and carry it's tail well (by applying ginger to its anus) ; hence smarten up.)

thus fig diamond was concurrently used as a particular reference of this term to nobility in England that dared take on the bawdy but fashionable and exciting fashions of other cultures otherwise frowned upon by a xenophobic society.

In General concurrence

something wonderful