Brogue

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A heavy shoe of untanned leather, formerly worn in Scotland and Ireland.
  • n. A strong oxford shoe, usually with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
  • n. A strong dialectal accent, especially a strong Irish or Scottish accent when speaking English.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
  • n. A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
  • v. To speak with a brogue (accent).
  • v. To walk.
  • v. To kick.
  • v. To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
  • v. to fish for eels by disturbing the waters
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.
  • n. A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Formerly, in Ireland, a shoe made of rawhide, with the hair outward, reaching as far as the ankle and tied by thongs.
  • n. A similar foot-covering worn by the Scotch Highlanders, but commonly made of deer-hide, either freshly stripped off or half dried, and having holes to allow water to escape.
  • n. A smooth piece of wood worn on the foot in the operation of washing tin, when the ore is in fine particles.
  • n. A dialectal manner of pronunciation: especially used of the mode of pronouncing English peculiar to the Irish.
  • n. A variant of brog.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a thick and heavy shoe
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shoe   
    Cross Reference
    modulation   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    brogan    shoe   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    drawl    sniffle    lisp    intonation    singsong    lilt    contralto    dialect    twang    cadence