Fogle, subs. (thieves’).—A silk handkerchief; also generic. [Cf.,
Ital., foglia = a pocket, a purse; Fr., fouille = a pocket]. A cotton
handkerchief is called a clout.
English Synonyms.—Bandanna; belcher; billy; clout; conch-clout;
fam-cloth; flag; kent-rag; madam; muckender; mucketer (Florio);
nose-wipe; pen-wiper; rag; sneezer; snottinger or snot-rag; stook;
wipe. See Billy.
French Synonyms.—Un cachemire (popular); un blave or blavin (thieves’;
from O.F., blave = blue); une fassolette (thieves’: It., fazzoletto);
un chiffon or chiffonnion (popular = a rag); un moufion (popular); les
mouchettes (popular = wipes).
German Synonyms.—Schneitzlingsschneiche (cf., Snot-rag); Flammert or
Flamme (also a neckerchief and an apron); Wisch (= also clothing of any
kind).
1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1821. Egan, Tom and Jerry (1890), p. 74, Jerry’s sneezer was
touched with some convulsive efforts so that his fogle was
continually at work.
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood bk. iii., ch. 5. Fogles and fawnies soon
went their way.
1837. Dickens, Oliver Twist, ch. xviii. ‘If you don’t take fogles
and tickers——’ ‘What’s the good of talking in that way?’ interposed
Master Bates: ‘he don’t know what you mean.’ ‘If you don’t take
pocket-handkerchiefs and watches,’ said the Dodger.
1841. Tait’s Edinburgh Mag., viii., p. 220. Fawnies or fogles,
onions gay, all were the same to me.
1849. Punch’s Almanack, ‘The Swell Mobsman’s Almanack.’ Their
fogles fetch next to nothing.
1858. A. Mayhew, Paved with Gold, bk. II., ch. i., p. 60. They’re
just made for hooking a fogle [handkerchief] out of a clye.
Fogle-hunter, subs. (thieves’).—A thief whose speciality is fogles
(q.v.). Fr. un blaviniste or un chiffonier, but for synonyms, see
Stookhauler.
1827. Maginn, in Blackwood’s Mag. ... the fogle hunters doing Their
morning fake in the prigging lay.
1830. Lytton, Paul Clifford, ch. xvi. Who’s here so base as would
be a fogle-hunter?
1837. Dickens, Oliver Twist, p. 44. ‘What’s the matter now?’ said
the man, carelessly. ‘A young fogle-hunter,’ replied the man who
had Oliver in charge.
1843. Punch, IV., p. 129. Rich charities the chapel throng. The
swell mob they are there, The Bishop’s sermon is not long, The
fogle-hunter ware!
Fogle-hunting (or drawing), subs. phr. (thieves’).—Stealing
pocket-handkerchiefs; i.e., ‘prigging of wipes.’
1823. Bee, Dict. of the Turf, etc., p. 82. Q. ‘Where’s Teddy?’ A.
‘He’s out a fogle-hunting.’ Sometimes ’tis said ‘drawing fogles,’
and ‘fogle-drawing.’
Fogram, or Fogrum, subs. (old).—A fussy old man. [Cf., colloquial sense
of Fogey.]
1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1793. Butt, Poems. We teach old maxims, neither less nor more, Than
Locke, or humble Hooker taught before, Those fogrums, quizzes,
treats, and bores, and gigs. Were held in some account with ancient
prigs.
1798. O’Keefe, Fontainbleau, II., 3. Never mind, old fogrum, run
away with me.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
Adj. (old).—Fogeyish; stupid.
1777. Foote, Trip to Calais, i, Father and mother are but a couple
of fogrum old fools.
Hence Fogramity = (1) Fogeyism (q.v.), and (2) the state of
Fogeyishness.
1796. D’Arblay, Camilla, ii., 5. Nobody’s civil now, you know, it
is a fogramity quite out of date.
Fogue, adj. (American thieves’).—Fierce; fiery.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
Fogus, subs. (old).—Tobacco. [Cf., Fogus.] For synonyms, see Weed.
1671. Head, English Rogue, I., v., p. 49 (1874), s.v. 1724. Coles,
English Dict., s.v. 1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulg. Tongue. Tip me
a gage of fogus.
1821. Haggart, Life, p. 133. A hole in the roof of my cell, through
which I handed her plenty of fogus.
1834. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, bk. III., ch. v. Troll us a stave, my
antediluvian file, and in the meantime tip me a gage [pipe] of
fogus, Jerry.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
Foiler, subs. (old).—A thief.
1669. Nicker Nicked, in Harl. Misc. [ed. Park], ii., 108. Given in
list of names of thieves.
Foin, verb. (obsolete).—To copulate, i.e., to thrust, to poke (q.v.).
Also subs.
1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes. Scazzata: A thrust, a push, a
foyne, or the serving to a woman of a man’s pricke.
1598. Shakspeare, 2 Henry IV., ii., 4. Thou whoreson little tidy
Bartholomew boar pig, when wilt thou leave fighting o’days, and
foining o’nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven?
Foist, Foyst, or Fyst, subs. (old).—1. A cheat; a swindler; a sharper.
1592. John Day, Blind Beggar (Bullen), p. 21. Your nipper, your
foyst, your rogue, your cheat.
1596. Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour iv., 7. Prate again, as
you like this, you whoreson foist you.
1607. Dekker, Jests to Make you Merie in wks. (Grosart) II., 326.
Now to our foysts, alias pickpocket, alias cutpurse.
1609. Dekker, Lanthorne and Candelight, in wks. (Grosart) III.,
212. A foyst nor a Nip shall not walke into a Fayre or a
Play-house.
1611. Middleton, Roaring Girl, O. Pl., vi., 113. This brave fellow
is no better than a foist. Foist! what is that? A diver with two
fingers; a pickpocket; all his train study the figging law, that’s
to say cutting of purses and foisting.