Usually means: Traditional leather shoes with perforations.
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  1. brogues: Merriam-Webster
  2. brogues: Collins English Dictionary
  3. brogues: Vocabulary.com
  4. Brogues, brogues: Wordnik
  5. brogues: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. brogues: Wiktionary
  7. Brogues, brogues: Dictionary.com
  8. brogues: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Brogues, The Brogues: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Brogues: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. brogues: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Brogues: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. Brogues: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  14. brogues: FreeDictionary.org
  15. Brogues: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. brogues: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See brogue as well.)

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noun:  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.
noun:  A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
noun:  (dated) A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To speak with a brogue (accent).
verb:  (intransitive) To walk.
verb:  (transitive) To kick.
verb:  (transitive) To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
verb:  (dialect) to fish for eels by disturbing the waters.
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