Definitions for Brogue

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Brogue brogue

Spelling: [brohg]

IPA: /broʊg/

Brogue is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in Brogue (begoru).

Definitions for Brogue

noun

1. an Irish accent in the pronunciation of English.
2. any strong regional accent.
3. a durable, comfortable, low-heeled shoe, often having decorative perforations and a wing tip.
4. a coarse, usually untanned leather shoe once worn in Ireland and Scotland.
5. brogan.
6. a fraud; trick; prank.

Origin of Brogue

First recorded in 1680-90; perhaps special use of brogue²

Examples for Brogue

Her brogue was apt to broaden when pleasure pulled down her dignity.

She spoke with a brogue, and they did not notice the peculiar expression.

I point out that Connery speaks with a brogue and that our character is an American from New York.

Three types of footwear -- including a brogue, a plimsoll, and an evening slipper -- established the basis for Katrantzou's theme.

She chuckled a bit in her confessional Irish brogue, and members of the audience laughed.

Also introduced the brogue and the shamrock into the Emerald Isle.

“My dad freaked out when the tabloid reporter turned up,” Cumming says, in his lilting Scottish brogue.

Anybody who says, “I wantida go ta da terlit on T'oid Avunya” is mixing a Jewish-immigrant accent with an Irish brogue.

Patrick Fitzmaurice, brogue and all, was an Irish gentleman without a flaw.

And now there was only a trace of the brogue in Spud's voice.