different between brogue vs progue

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: br?g, IPA^(key): /b?o??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: br?g, IPA^(key): /b????/
• Rhymes: -???

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (heavy shoe): brogan

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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.

See also

• Brogue shoe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Possibly from French brouiller.

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

• Burgeo

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Etymology

Borrowed from Irish bróg.

Noun

brogue

1. shoe

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Noun

progue (plural progues)

1. (Scotland, US, dialect) A sharp point; a goad.

Verb

progue (third-person singular simple present progues, present participle proguing, simple past and past participle progued)

1. (Scotland, US, dialect, transitive) To prick; to goad.

Anagrams

• e-group, groupe