Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- an Irish accent in the pronunciation of English.
- any strong regional accent.
noun
- a durable, comfortable, low-heeled shoe, often having decorative perforations and a wing tip.
- a coarse, usually untanned leather shoe once worn in Ireland and Scotland.
- brogan.
noun Scot.
- a fraud; trick; prank.
noun
- a broad gentle-sounding dialectal accent, esp that used by the Irish in speaking English
noun
- a sturdy walking shoe, often with ornamental perforations
- an untanned shoe worn formerly in Ireland and Scotland
type of Celtic accent, 1705, perhaps from the meaning “rough, stout shoe” worn by rural Irish and Scottish highlanders (1580s), via Gaelic or Irish, from Old Irish broce “shoe,” thus originally meaning something like “speech of those who call a shoe a brogue.” Or perhaps it is from Old Irish barrog “a hold” (on the tongue).