from E-NED: of obscure formation; the original sense is perhaps ‘filly’ (cf. Welsh ffilawg filly, wanton girl, in Salesbury 1547 filoc, which may be an early adoption from English). The word may be from filly + -ock, or represent (with Northern pronunciation) an Old English *fylece wk. fem., corresponding to Old High German fulihha: —Old Teutonic *fulikôn-, f. *ful-, fol- ? c 1450 - Hoccleve's The Letter of Cupid to Lovers see below From: Hoccleve's Works The Minor Poems Published by the Early English Text Society 1892 XIX. The Letter of Cupid to Lovers, His Subjects P. 38 From: The Literature of Roguery
By Frank Wadleigh Chandler Volume I. 1907 Chapter III. The Anatomies of Roguery. I. Beggar Books P. 88
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