different between fogle vs foge

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)

1. (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, […] .

References

Anagrams

• Egolf, Fogel

English

Pronunciation

Noun

foge (plural foges)

1. (Britain, dialect, Cornwall, dated) A forge used for smelting tin.

References

Italian

Noun

foge f

1. plural of foga

Portuguese

Verb

foge

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of fugir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of fugir