foggage

Updated: June 3, 2025

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.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846