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Fogle vs Bogle - What's the difference?

fogle | bogle |

As nouns the difference between fogle and bogle

is that fogle is (obsolete) a pocket handkerchief while bogle is a goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.

fogle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A pocket handkerchief
  • *{{quote-book, year=1866, author=Anthony Trollope, title=The Claverings, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Doodles, therefore, wore a cut-away coat, a colored shirt with a fogle round his neck, old brown trousers that fitted very tightly round his legs, and was careful to take no gloves with him.}} ----

    bogle

    English

    Alternative forms

    * boggle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A goblin; a frightful spectre or phantom; a bogy or bugbear.
    • (Webster 1913)