Definitions

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  • adjective Having a brogue ("accent").
  • adjective Shod with brogues ("shoes").
  • adjective Decorated with brogueing.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of brogue.

Etymologies

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See brogue Etymology 1

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Examples

  • There seemed something shockingly aboriginal -- simian -- in the swift, gorilla-like clutch of his huge dangling hands, as they fastened on the throat and shoulder of the drunken man and whirled him on his back in the snow -- something deadly and menacing in his hard-breathing, soft-brogued invective:

    The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall

  • In curious contrast to his somewhat formidable exterior seemed his mild, gentle, soft-brogued voice.

    The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall

  • Nellie, on night duty on the sixth floor, had sounded thick-brogued, sure sign of distress with her.

    Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

  • She wore a brown jumper, brown skirt, brown stockings and little brown brogued shoes.

    The Pit Prop Syndicate Freeman Wills Crofts 1918

  • There they were found, reclining in chairs, by another staff officer duly be-tabbed, trousered, brogued, and carrying a cane.

    The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Herbert Brayley Collett 1912

  • It had no outward effect on the Black Colonel, who turned the peat ashes of the fire with his brogued foot, and looked at the little spits of smoke and flame which flew up.

    The Black Colonel James Milne 1908

  • She was dressed in the very smartest and most-up-to-date country kit; short tweed skirt of a pleasing greenish hue, stockings to match, brown brogued shoes, and a blouse that might have come from Paris.

    The Man from the Clouds 1907

  • There were five or six of those great handsome girls, with their generous curves and wholesome colors, and they were every one attended by a good-looking colonial lover, with whom they joked in slightly brogued voices, and laughed with careless Celtic laughter.

    Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells 1878

  • There were five or six of those great handsome girls, with their generous curves and wholesome colors, and they were every one attended by a good-looking colonial lover, with whom they joked in slightly brogued voices, and laughed with careless Celtic laughter.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • Instead of shoes, he wears hogskin moccasins brogued with sole-leather.

    Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters 1859

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