Fogle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fogle is a noun meaning (obsolete) A pocket handkerchief.
Meaning
(obsolete) A pocket handkerchief.
Example Sentences
[…]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,[…].
Doodles, therefore, wore a cut-away coat, a colored shirt with a fogle round his neck, old brown trousers that fitted very tightly round his legs, and was careful to take no gloves with him.
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.
Word Forms
- fogles
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include flipe, flook, flinder, clyfaking, flype, fopling.
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