brogue

English

WOTD – 20 December 2006

A pair of brogues

Pronunciation

• enPR: brōg, IPA^(key): /bɹoʊɡ/
• enPR: brōg, IPA^(key): /bɹəʊɡ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡ

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Irish bróg (“boot, shoe”). The "accent" sense may instead be derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Irish barróg (“a hold (on the tongue)”).

Noun

brogue (plural brogues)

1. A strong dialectal accent. In Ireland it 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.
   • 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.

2. A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
3. (dated) A heavy shoe of untanned leather.

Synonyms

• (heavy shoe): brogan

Derived terms

Derived terms

• brogued
• brogueing

• broguery
• broguish

Translations

A strong dialectal accent

• Finnish: murre (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: провинциальный акцент (provincialʹnyj akcent), резкий акцент (rezkij akcent)
• Welsh: acen wladaidd f

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

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: броги (ru) m pl (brogi), туфли с перфорацией (tufli s perforacijej)

A heavy shoe of untanned leather

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: полуботинок (ru) m (polubotinok), башмак (ru) m (bašmak), грубый башмак (grubyj bašmak)

Verb

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.

See also

• Brogue shoe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French brouiller.

Verb

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

Anagrams

• Burgeo