figger

English

Noun

figger (plural figgers)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of figure.
    • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 43:
      "I've left my job to look after you, and I can't afford to spend money on you too. I've kept an account of all I've spent. Here it is." "But I ain't up to adding up figgers being in the state I am."

Verb

figger (third-person singular simple present figgers, present participle figgering, simple past and past participle figgered)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of figure.
    • 2012, Darrell Sroufe, “Modernized Newfangled Gizmos & Gadgets”, in Howdy Folks! I’m Fuster Buskins!, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 134:
      They was a button on that thar computer what said ‘Enter’. I pushed it ’cause I figgered it must be a doorbell. It didn’t make no dingy sound though.
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