fuglev.1
slang or dialect.
transitive. To cheat, trick.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)]
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1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 126 Who fugell'd the Parson's fine Maid.
1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Fugel, or Fugle, to cheat, deceive, or trick; used actively.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
fuglev.2
/ˈfjuːɡl/, U.S. /ˈfjuɡ(ə)l/ 1.
a. intransitive. To do the duty of a fugleman; to act as guide or director; to make signals. literal and figurative.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > make signals [verb (intransitive)]
fugle1837
society > communication > indication > signalling > make signals [verb (intransitive)]
fugle1837
signalize1838
signal1845
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. vii. 338 Wooden arms with elbow-joints are jerking and fugling in the air, in the most rapid mysterious manner.
1863 De Morgan in From Matter to Spirit Pref. 35 The case..fugles admirably for a very large class of the philosophical principles.
b. transitive. To give an example of (something) to.
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1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 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. In combinations.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. iv. 313 The French Nation is of gregarious imitative nature; it needed but a fugle-motion in this matter.
1842 E. Miall in Nonconformist 2 377 The fugle-word [Martyrdom] of our present article, is a venerable expression.
Derivatives
ˈfugling n.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > exemplifying some rule, activity, quality, etc. > action of exemplifying or instantiating > by some exaggerated instance
fugling1858
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. ii. 81 No Czech blows into his pipe in the woodlands, without certain precautions, and preliminary fuglings of a devotional nature.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. viii. 468 A certain handy and correct young fellow..who already knew his fugling to a hairs-breadth, was Drill-master.
1863 Reader 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.
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