ETYMOLOGY
apparently from honey (n.) + fugle (to cheat, trick),
perhaps after dialect connyfogle (to deceive)
EXAMPLE
“… Let it be borne in mind that Sharp is a willing, a swift, and a long-winded witness, having come from the Territory, two thousand miles off, mainly for the purpose of devoting to the sitting Delegate the benefit of his counsel and his oath. Pardon me for using the word; but Sharp ‘honey-fuggled‘ around me; He came to me, and stated that Chapman wanted him to make an affidavit, but that he would rather not do it; that he had declined doing it; and thus he misled me and threw me off my guard, and then a few days afterwards, he makes this affidavit, gets on board the cars, and left the city for western Iowa, to pull wires in politics to secure his own election to the Iowa Legislature; …”
From: United States. Congress. Congressional Globe; Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Congress 1855 – 1856
Nebraska Contested Election.
Speech of Hon. H. P. Bennet of Nebraska,
In the House of Representatives, July 22, 1856.
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