slang. A handkerchief or neckerchief, usually of silk.

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1811.  Lexicon Balatronicum, Fogle. A silk handkerchief.

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1834.  W. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, III. v., ‘Jerry Juniper’s Chaunt.’

        Fogles and fawnies soon went their way,
                    Fake away,
To the spout with the sneezers in grand array,
No dummy hunter had forks so fly;
            Nix my doll palls, fake away.

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1840.  Barham, Ingol. Leg., Tragedy, vii.

            But when beat on his knees, That confounded De Guise
Came behind with the ‘fogle’ that caused all this breeze.

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  b.  Comb., as fogle-hunter, a pick-pocket; fogle-drawing, -hunting vbl. sbs., picking pockets.

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1823.  Grose’s Dict. Vulg. Tongue (ed. Egan), Fogle Hunter, a pickpocket. Cant.

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1823.  ‘Jon Bee,’ Slang, s.v. Fogle.… Q. ‘Where’s Teddy?’ A. ‘He’s out a fogle-hunting.’ Sometimes ’tis said ‘drawing fogles,’ and ‘fogle-drawing.’

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1838.  Dickens, O. Twist, xi. ‘What’s the matter now?’ said the man, carelessly. ‘A young fogle-hunter,’ replied the man who had Oliver in charge.

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