foyle
English
Verb
foyle (third-person singular simple present foyles, present participle foyling, simple past and past participle foyled)
- Obsolete spelling of foil
Anagrams
- Foley, foley
Middle English
Alternative forms
- ffoyl, foil, foile, foille, foylle, fule
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French fueille, feuille, from Old French fueille, from Late Latin folia, originally the plural of folium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfui̯l(ə)/
- (Northern) IPA(key): /fyːl/, /ˈfyːʎə/
Noun
foyle (plural foyles)
- (cooking or literary) A leaf (organ of a plant).
- (cooking) A sheet of thin pastry.
- (metallurgy) Foil (thinly beat metal)
- (rare) A thin piece or flake.
Descendants
- English: foil
- Scots: foilzie, foolyie
References
- “foil, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.