dial. [perh. f. FOG v.1 + -ER1; the word has a curious resemblance to Du. fokker breeder of cattle, f. fokken vb.] An agricultural laborer chiefly engaged in feeding and attending to cattle.
1851. in Berksh. Gloss.
1858. Hughes, Scouring White Horse, 75. I found Joe with his fogger, as he called him, looking at some calves.
1879. Jefferies, Amateur Poacher (1889), 223. A fogger going to fodder his cattle came across a pheasant lying dead on the path, the snow stained with its blood.
