foyle

English

Verb

foyle (third-person singular simple present foyles, present participle foyling, simple past and past participle foyled)

1. 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)

1. (cooking or literary) A leaf (organ of a plant).
2. (cooking) A sheet of thin pastry.
3. (metallurgy) Foil (thinly beat metal)
4. (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.