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▪ I. ˈfugle, v.1 slang or dial.
trans. To cheat, trick.
1719D'Urfey Pills I. 126 Who fugell'd the Parson's fine Maid. 1883Almondbury Gloss., Fugel, or Fugle, to cheat, deceive, or trick; used actively.
▪ II. fugle, v.2|ˈfjuːg(ə)l|
[back-formation from fugleman.]
1. intr. To do the duty of a fugleman; to act as guide or director; to make signals. lit. and fig.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. v. vii. (1871) 207 Wooden arms with elbow-joints are jerking and fugling in the air, in the most rapid mysterious manner! 1863De Morgan in From Matter to Spirit Pref. 35 The case..fugles admirably for a very large class of the philosophical principles.
b. trans. To give an example of (something) to.
1868Pall Mall G. 29 June 12/2 The cost of keeping a few thousand good men to fugle all the public and domestic virtues to the benighted millions of Roman Catholics.
2. Comb.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. v. iv. (1871) 191 The French nation is of gregarious imitative nature; it needed but a fugle-motion in this matter. 1842Miall in Nonconf. II. 377 The fugle-word [Martyrdom] of our present article, is a venerable expression.
Hence ˈfugling vbl. n.
1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ii. ii. (1868) I. 81 No Czech blows into his pipe in the woodlands, without certain precautions, and preliminary fuglings of a devotional nature. Ibid. iv. viii. 468 A certain handy and correct young fellow..who already knew his fugling to a hair's-breadth, was Drill-master. 1863Reader 5 Dec. 656 What the author calls, metaphorically, ‘Fugling’, or the representation of a corporate process of mind by some single exaggerated instance of the same process stationed in front of it. |