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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionaryef·fi·gy \ˈe-fə-jē\ noun (plural -gies) ETYMOLOGY Middle French effigie, from Latin effigies, from effingere to form, from ex- + fingere to shape — more at dough DATE 1539: an image or representation especially of a person; especially : a crude figure representing a hated person • • •- in effigyEnglish Etymologyeffigy 1539, from L. effigies "copy or imitation of something, likeness," related to effingere "mold, fashion, portray," from ex- "out" + fingere "to form, shape" (see fiction). The Latin word was regarded as plural and the -s was lopped off by 18c.Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7effigyef·figy / 5efidVi / noun(pl. -ies)1. a statue of a famous person, a saint or a god (名人、圣人或神的)雕像,塑像: stone effigies in the church 教堂里的石雕像 2. a model of a person that makes them look ugly (丑化人的)模拟像,画像: The demonstrators burned a crude effigy of the president. 示威者焚毁了总统的丑化像。 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridgedef·fi·gyI. \ˈefəjē, -ji\ noun(-es)Etymology: Middle French effigie, from Latin effigies, from effingere to form, fashion, portray, from ex- + fingere to form, shape — more at dough: a full or partial representation especially of a person: as a. : a sculptured likeness < the old man himself sits in bronze effigy on a cornerstone — Lawrence Constable > b. : a portrait on a coin < in those distant days when the only representation of the sovereign was a rough-drawn effigy on coin or seal — R.T.B.Fulford > c. : a crude figure often in the form of a stuffed dummy that is tortured or disposed of (as by burning or hanging) to represent treatment felt to be due to a person who is the object of hatred — see guy IV 1II. transitive verb(-ed/-ing/-es): to represent by an effigy

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