foyle

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English

Verb

foyle (third-person singular simple present foyles, present participle foyling, simple past and past participle foyled)

  1. Obsolete spelling of foil.

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French fueille, feuille, from Old French fueille, from Late Latin folia, originally the plural of folium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfui̯l(ə)/
  • (Northern) IPA(key): /fyːl/, /ˈfyːʎə/

Noun

foyle (plural foyles)

  1. (cooking or literary) A leaf (organ of a plant).
  2. (cooking) A sheet of thin pastry.
  3. (metallurgy) Foil (thinly beat metal)
  4. (rare) A thin piece or flake.

Descendants

  • English: foil
  • Scots: foilzie, foolyie

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