Lexicographical Neighbors of Fogles
Literary usage of Fogles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
"... (the fogles have been long out of the firm, and Sir Horace Fogle is about to
be raised to the peerage as Baron ..."
2. The Vulgar Tongue: a Glossary of Slang, Cant, and Flash Words and Phrases by Ducange Anglicus (1859)
"... OP fogles. A stealer of pocket- handkerchiefs. Th. *TO PINCH—to rob. PINCH, v.
To steal. Gen. PINS, «. Legs. ..."
3. Our Miscellany, which Ought to Have Come Out, But Didn't by Robert Barnabas Brough (1856)
"Next to him sat Smiling Sammy, a " queer cuffin," who had taken more vipes,
fogles, tickers, sneezing-traps, and readers, than any man of his day. ..."
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