different between fogle vs foole

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, […] .

References

Anagrams

• Egolf, Fogel

English

Noun

foole (plural fooles)

1. Archaic spelling of fool.

Verb

foole

1. Archaic spelling of fool.

Farefare

Etymology

Cognate with Moore foolle (“space between two lines, column”)

Pronunciation

1. /fó:.lé/

Noun

foole (plural f?la)

1. line (of objects or people)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French fol.

Noun

foole

1. Alternative form of fole (“fool”)

Adjective

foole

1. Alternative form of fole (“foolish”)

Etymology 2

From Old English fola.

Noun

foole

1. Alternative form of fole (“foal”)