Sc. Also fogie. [prob. a use of FOGGY a., either because the insect inhabits mossy places (Jam.), or because it is clothed with a moss-like covering.] A kind of humble-bee; = CARDER 1 b. also foggie-bee.

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1819.  J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., Sept., 677/1. Rather unluckily there was in the tent a nest of humble bees, of that brown irritable sort called ‘foggies.’

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1853.  N. & Q., 1st Ser. VIII. 64/1. Its name among the Scottish peasantry is the fogie bee.

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1856.  T. Aird, Poet. Wks., 130, A Summer Day.

        The mower in the meadow ruffles up
The foggie’s nest, a ball of soft dry fog.

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