brogue

• (General American) enPR: brōg, IPA^(key): /bɹoʊɡ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: brōg, IPA^(key): /bɹəʊɡ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡ

From Irish bróg (“boot, shoe”). The "accent" sense may instead be derived from Irish barróg (“a hold (on the tongue)”).

brogue (plural brogues)

1. 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.
   • 1978, Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind, Bantam Books, page 62:

     I had no doubt he knew where I was from, for I had the brogue, although not much of it.

   • 2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest, Random House, page 187:

     “No-man's-land.” The words were spoken in a deep voice filled with salt water and brogue.

2. A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
3. (dated) A heavy shoe of untanned leather.

• (heavy shoe): brogan

brogue (third-person singular simple present brogues, present participle broguing, simple past and past participle brogued)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To speak with a brogue (accent).
2. (intransitive) To walk.
3. (transitive) To kick.
4. (transitive) To punch a hole in, as with an awl.

• Brogue shoe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Possibly from French brouiller.

brogue (third-person singular simple present brogues, present participle broguing, simple past and past participle brogued)

1. (dialectal) to fish for eels by disturbing the waters

• Burgeo