different between fogle vs fugle

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

Etymology

Back-formation from fugleman.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fju???l/
• Homophone: fugal

Verb

fugle (third-person singular simple present fugles, present participle fugling, simple past and past participle fugled)

1. (colloquial) To manoeuvre; to move around.

   • Wooden arms with elbow joints jerking and fugling in the air.

Anagrams

• Guelf

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu?l?/, [?fu?l?]

Noun

fugle c

1. indefinite plural of fugl