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ficher

/fi.ʃe/

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verb/fi.ʃe/

to plug in (to drive something in by its point, as with a nail or a stake); to file, to record, to track; to not care; to make fun; to do, to be up to

ficher un clouto drive in a nail

Synonyms: se moquer de, se foutre de, faire, fabriquer, foutre, branler

Inherited from Middle French ficher, from Old French fichier, from Vulgar Latin *fīg(i)cāre, frequentative based on Latin fīgere (“fasten, fix”). The "give a damn" sense is a minced oath of foutre (“to fuck”).