brogue
IPA: brˈoʊg
noun
- 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.
- A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
- (dated) A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To speak with a brogue (accent).
- (intransitive) To walk.
- (transitive) To kick.
- (transitive) To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
- (dialect) to fish for eels by disturbing the waters.
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Examples of "brogue" in Sentences
- "Mickey's gently lifting Irish brogue is enough to call a storm ....."
- Fun fact: the word brogue is derived from the Gaelic word, bróg, which means "shoe."
- His brogue is pretty clear (he enunicates better that Craig Ferguson) so that would be fun.
- Simon Pegg plays Scotty as Simon Pegg with a brogue, which is exactly what I wanted to see.
- But she did not give her "brogue" the inimitable twist she had given it in the practices, and her readings lacked their usual fire and appeal.
- His face relaxes: he turns quietly, and gravely takes off his hat to the tuft, addressing the insect in a brogue which is the jocular assumption of a gentleman and not the natural speech of a peasant.
- Cousin Mary was the very type of the beautiful old lady, with her silver hair and her sweet Southern Irish voice; foreigners must be warned that this resembles what they call a "brogue" about as little as the speech of a Highland gentleman resembles the jargon of the Glasgow slums.
- It was scarcely definite enough to be called brogue, yet there was a trick in the turning of the sentence, the wrong sound of a letter here and there, that was almost irresistible to McLean, and presaged a misuse of infinitives and possessives with which he was very familiar and which touched him nearly.
- It was scarcely definite enough to be called brogue, yet there was a trick in the turning of the sentence, the wrong sound of a letter here and there, that was almost irresistible to McLean, and presaged a misuse of infinitives and possessives with which he w as very familiar and which touched him nearly.
- His hair was short, and stuck up aggressively; his brogue was the strongest in the regiment; his blunders were innumerable, and his look of amazement at the laughter they called forth was admirably feigned, save that the twinkle of his eye induced a suspicion that he himself enjoyed the joke as well as anyone.
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