brogue

• (General American) enPR: brōg, IPA^(key): /bɹoʊɡ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: brōg, IPA^(key): /bɹəʊɡ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡ

From Irish bróg (“boot, shoe”), from Old Irish bróc (“shoe, greave, legging, hose, breeches”), likely from Old Norse brók (“breeches”), from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“breeches”). The "accent" sense may instead be derived from Irish barróg (“a hold (on the tongue)”).

brogue (plural brogues)

1. A strong dialectal accent, usually Irish or Scottish.
   • 1978, Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind, Bantam Books, page 62:

     I had no doubt he knew where I was from, for I had the brogue, although not much of it.

   • 2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest, Random House, page 187:

     “No-man's-land.” The words were spoken in a deep voice filled with salt water and brogue.

   • 2020 November 1, Alan Young, “Sean Connery obituary: From delivering milk in Fountainbridge to the definitive James Bond”, in The Scotsman‎^[1]:

     his brooding good looks and distinct Scottish brogue won him legions of fans worldwide.

2. A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.

   Synonym: brogan

   • 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 161:

     He had one pair of brogues and the soles were in a miserable state.

3. (dated) A heavy shoe of untanned leather.

• Of the first sense, in Ireland this used to be a term for Irish spoken with a strong English accent, but gradually changed to mean English spoken with a strong Irish accent as English control of Ireland gradually increased and Irish waned as the standard language.

brogue (third-person singular simple present brogues, present participle broguing or brogueing, simple past and past participle brogued)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To speak with a brogue (accent).
2. (intransitive) To walk.
3. (transitive) To kick.
4. (transitive) To punch a hole in, as with an awl.

• Brogue shoe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Possibly from French brouiller.

brogue (third-person singular simple present brogues, present participle broguing, simple past and past participle brogued)

1. (dialect) to fish for eels by disturbing the waters.

• Burgeo

Borrowed from Irish bróg.

brogue

1. shoe
   • 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):

     Brogue,

     Shooe.

• brough

Borrowed from Irish bróg.

• IPA^(key): /broːɡ/, /brəʊɡ/

brogue

1. shoe

• Brogeen

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867