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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Examples
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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
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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
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Nellie, on night duty on the sixth floor, had sounded thick-brogued, sure sign of distress with her.
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She wore a brown jumper, brown skirt, brown stockings and little brown brogued shoes.
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There they were found, reclining in chairs, by another staff officer duly be-tabbed, trousered, brogued, and carrying a cane.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Instead of shoes, he wears hogskin moccasins brogued with sole-leather.
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