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English
Etymology
Unclear. German Vogel (“bird”) has been suggested, the connection being bird's-eye, a fabric from which such handkerchiefs were made.[1] Hotten (see References) suggests a connection with the Italian slang foglia (“pocket, purse”) or French argot fouille (“pocket”).
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, […] .
c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings: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.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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