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foule
English
Adjective
foule (comparative more foule, superlative most foule)
- Obsolete form of foul.
- 1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I:
- 1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I:
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ful/
- Rhymes: -ul
- Homophones: foulent, foules
Etymology 1
From Middle French foule (“group of men, people collectively”), alteration (due to Middle French foule (“act of treading”)) of Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Vulgar Latin, from Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulk? (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“to fill”). Cognate with Old High German folc (“people collectively, nation”), Old English folc (“common people, troop, multitude”). More at folk.
Noun
foule f (plural foules)
- crowd
- the thronging of a crowd
- a great number, multitude, mass; host
Derived terms
- bain de foule
Etymology 2
From Middle French foule (“the act of milling clothes or hats”) and fouler (“to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat”), from Old French foler (“to crush, act wickedly”), from Latin full? (“I trample, I full”). More at full.
Noun
foule f (plural foules)
- the act or process of treading or milling
- oppression, vexation
Verb
foule
- first-person singular present indicative of fouler
- third-person singular present indicative of fouler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fouler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fouler
- second-person singular imperative of fouler
Anagrams
- floue
Further reading
- “foule” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Verb
foule
- inflection of foulen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Norman
Etymology
From Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Vulgar Latin, from Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulk? (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pel?- (“to fill”).
Noun
foule f (plural foules)
- (Jersey) crowd
Synonyms
- fliotchet
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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)
- (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, […] .
- 1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford, 2009, Gutenberg eBook #7735,
References
Anagrams
- Egolf, Fogel
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