fogle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pocket handkerchief. obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

fogles plural

词源

Unclear. German Vogel (“bird”) has been suggested, the connection being bird's-eye, a fabric from which such handkerchiefs were made. Hotten (see References) suggests a connection with the Italian slang foglia (“pocket, purse”) or French argot fouille (“pocket”).
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