Usually means: Thick, accented speech; ornate shoe.
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  1. brogue: Merriam-Webster
  2. brogue, brogue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brogue, brogue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brogue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brogue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brogue, brogue: Wordnik
  7. brogue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brogue: Wiktionary
  9. brogue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brogue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brogue: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brogue, brogue: Dictionary.com
  13. brogue: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brogue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Brogue (video game), Brogue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Brogue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brogue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brogue: Rhymezone
  19. Brogue: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brogue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. brogue: FreeDictionary.org
  22. brogue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. brogue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. brogue: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. brogue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. brogue: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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