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fogie

English

Noun

fogie (plural fogies)

  1. Alternative spelling of fogey

Venetian

Noun

fogie

  1. plural of fogia

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fogle

English

Etymology

Unclear. German Vogel (bird) has been suggested, the connection being bird's-eye, a fabric from which such handkerchiefs were made.

Noun

fogle (plural fogles)

  1. (obsolete) A pocket handkerchief.
    • 1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford, 2009, Gutenberg eBook #7735,
      One, gentlemen, I myself expelled from our corps for ungentlemanlike practices; he picked pockets of fogles, (handkerchiefs)--it was a vulgar employment.
    • 1853, Lord William Lennox, Ernest Atherley, Or Scenes at Home and Abroad, in The Sporting Review, Volume 30, page 202,
      [] 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, [] .

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Anagrams

  • Egolf, Fogel

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