Obs. Also 5 -dode, 7 -date. Conjectured to be ad. Pg. figo doudo, wild (lit. ‘mad’) fig, = Fr. figue folle. Cf. Du. vijghe dote, dodesche vijgh (Kilian) in same sense. In the S.W. counties dough-fig is used for a dried fig, the word fig alone meaning a raisin.] An inferior kind of fig.
1481–90. Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.), 351. Item, for a topet of fygge dodes ij.s.
1552. Huloet, Figge dote, busicon.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv., xxii. 203–4. Let Dioscorides commend his … yellow figs, Athenaeus his blue Figgs, and Pratensis his Mariscas, or Fig-dates.
