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fogle

fogle noun: a handkerchief.

Noun

fogle (plural fogles)

  1. (obsolete) A handkerchief.
    • One, gentlemen, I myself expelled from our corps for ungentlemanlike practices; he picked pockets of fogles, (handkerchiefs)--it was a vulgar employment.1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford, 2009, Gutenberg eBook #7735
    • […]and we've to pick up the stakes and cords at Uncle Ben's, to get the bird's-eye fogles in St. Martin's-lane,[…].1853, Lord William Lennox, “Ernest Atherley, Or Scenes at Home and Abroad”, in The Sporting Review, Volume 30, page 202

Proper noun capitalized: Fogle

Fogle (plural Fogles)

  1. A surname.

Forms of fogle

Noun
pluralfogles
Proper noun
pluralFogles

Origin of fogle

Unclear. German Vogel (“bird”) has been suggested, the connection being bird's-eye, a fabric from which such handkerchiefs were made. Hotten (see References) suggests a connection with the Italian slang foglia (“pocket, purse”) or French argot fouille (“pocket”).

Questions about fogle

What does fogle mean?
Fogle means a handkerchief.
What part of speech is fogle?
Fogle can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of fogle?
The plural of fogle is fogles.

Words near fogle in the dictionary

  1. foghorns
  2. fogie
  3. fogies
  4. foglamp
  5. foglamps
  6. fogle
  7. Fogleman
  8. Foglemans
  9. Fogler
  10. Foglers
  11. fogles

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