foggage

[ fog-ij, faw-gij ]

noun

, Chiefly Scot.

1. fog ².

foggage

/ ˈfɒɡɪdʒ /

noun

1. grass grown for winter grazing

Word History and Origins

Origin of foggage¹

From the Anglo-Latin word fogāgium, dating back to 1490–1500. See fog ², -age

Example Sentences

Its silly wa's the win's are strewin: And naething, now, to big a new ane, O' foggage green!

From Project Gutenberg

But we are bound to say, that there are other linguists who refer the word to a less elevated source—some connecting it with the term fog or foggage, meaning a second grass or aftermath, not quite so rich or nourishing as the first growth; others, pointing at a kind of inferior bee, which receives the name of Foggie from its finding its nest among fog or moss; and others uncivilly insinuating that the Latin fucus, a drone, is the origin of the appellation.

From Project Gutenberg

And naething now to big a new ane O' foggage green!

From Project Gutenberg

An' naething, now, to big a new ane, O' foggage green!

From Project Gutenberg

Poem 144. sleekit: sleek; bickering brattle: flittering flight; laith: loth; pattle: ploughstaff; whyles: at times; a daimen icker: a corn-ear now and then; thrave: shock; lave: rest; foggage: aftergrass; snell: biting; but hald: without dwelling-place; thole: bear; cranreuch: hoarfrost; thy lane: alone; a-gley: off the right line, awry.

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