fogle

== English == === Etymology === 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”). === 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. === References === John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary === Anagrams === Egolf, Fogel