brogue
About 0.18 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A strong dialectal accent, usually Irish or Scottish.
- noun A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
- noun A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
- verb To speak with a brogue (accent).
- verb To walk.
- verb To kick.
- verb To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
- 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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