EGAVE

brogue

About 0.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A strong dialectal accent, usually Irish or Scottish.
  2. noun A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
  3. noun A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
  4. verb To speak with a brogue (accent).
  5. verb To walk.
  6. verb To kick.
  7. verb To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
  8. verb to fish for eels by disturbing the waters.

Similar words

brogan clodhopper work shoe shoe broganeer bog irish irish english hiberno-english brodie irish cockney

Often followed by

and of that was in as is shoes to

Word family

brogues

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