name
Meaning 1
An unincorporated community in York County, Pennsylvania.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
brogue
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɹəʊ̯ɡ/
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General-American: /ˈbɹoʊ̯ɡ/
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rhymes with -əʊɡ
noun
Meaning 2
A strong dialectal accent, usually Irish or Scottish.
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noun
Meaning 3
A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
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Synonyms: brogan
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noun
Meaning 4
A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
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Usage: dated
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verb
Meaning 5
To speak with a brogue (accent).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To walk.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To kick.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
to fish for eels by disturbing the waters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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noun
Meaning 10
a thick and heavy shoe
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brogan, clodhopper, work shoe
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Broader terms: shoe
History
Etymology
Borrowed 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)”).
Possibly from French brouiller.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: murre — A strong dialectal accent
- German: Dialekt — A strong dialectal accent
- Polish: akcent regionalny — A strong dialectal accent
- Russian: провинциа́льный акце́нт (provinciálʹnyj akcént) — A strong dialectal accent
- Russian: ре́зкий акце́нт (rézkij akcént) — A strong dialectal accent
- Welsh: acen wladaidd — A strong dialectal accent
- Finnish: brogue-kenkä — A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
- German: Brogue — A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
- German: Budapester — A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
- Polish: szkot — A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
- Polish: brogs — A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
- Russian: бро́ги (brógi) — A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
- Russian: ту́фли с перфора́цией (túfli s perforácijej) — A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
- Czech: těžká bota — A heavy shoe of untanned leather
- Polish: półbut — A heavy shoe of untanned leather
- Russian: полуботи́нок (polubotínok) — A heavy shoe of untanned leather
- Russian: башма́к (bašmák) — A heavy shoe of untanned leather
- Russian: грубый башма́к (grubyj bašmák) — A heavy shoe of untanned leather