figging

The insertion of ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra, originally applied to slaves and prisoners as a punishment, then to horses as a form of deception as to the horse's condition, and later used in BDSM.

To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.

To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.

(soap-making) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.

To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.

To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.

To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of: to perform figging upon.

(soap-making) (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.