brogue
pronunciation
How to pronounce brogue in British English:
UK [brəʊg]
How to pronounce brogue in American English:
US [broʊg]
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- Noun:
- a thick and heavy shoe
Word Origin
- brogue
- brogue: [16] A brogue was originally a rudimentary sort of shoe worn in the more wild and woolly Celtic corners of the British Isles; the term does not seem to have been applied to today’s ‘stout country walking shoe’ until the early 20th century. The word, Irish and Scots Gaelic brōg, comes from Old Norse brók ‘leg covering’, which is related to English breeches; the relationship between ‘leg covering’ and ‘foot covering’ is fairly close, and indeed from the 17th to the 19th century brogue was used for ‘leggings’.It is not clear whether brogue ‘Irish accent’ [18] is the same word; if it is, it presumably comes from some such notion as ‘the speech of those who wear brogues’.=> breeches
- brogue (n.)
- type of Celtic accent, 1705, perhaps from the meaning "rough, stout shoe" worn by rural Irish and Scottish highlanders (1580s), via Gaelic or Irish, from Old Irish broce "shoe," thus originally meaning something like "speech of those who call a shoe a brogue." Or perhaps it is from Old Irish barrog "a hold" (on the tongue).
Example
- 1. Their scottish brogue was quite thick .
- 2. I know of you well enough , smiled the irishman , with a soft brogue .
- 3. She spoke in her soft lilting brogue .
- 4. " Lord alec , " the elderly man said in his thick scottish brogue as he watched alec came out of the car .
- 5. And suddenly she grinned for , as a voice thick with brogue and whisky came to her , raised in " peg in a low-backed car , " she knew .