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6-letter words (1 found)

BROGUE,

5-letter words (9 found)

BOGUE,BOUGE,BOURG,ERUGO,GEBUR,GREBO,ORGUE,ROGUE,ROUGE,

4-letter words (17 found)

BEGO,BERG,BORE,BROG,BURG,ERGO,EURO,GOER,GORE,GRUB,GRUE,OGRE,REGO,ROBE,ROUE,RUBE,URGE,

3-letter words (32 found)

BEG,BOG,BOR,BRO,BRU,BUG,BUR,EGO,ERG,GEO,GER,GOB,GOE,GOR,GUB,GUE,GUR,OBE,ORB,ORE,ORG,OUR,REB,REG,REO,ROB,ROE,RUB,RUE,RUG,URB,URE,

2-letter words (12 found)

BE,BO,ER,GO,GU,OB,OE,OR,OU,RE,UG,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 72 words from brogue according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of brogue

brogue

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: brōg, IPA(key): /bɹoʊɡ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: brōg, IPA(key): /bɹəʊɡ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊɡ

Etymology 1

From Irish bróg (“boot, shoe”), from Old Irish bróc, itself from Old Norse brók (“breeches”). 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.
  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

Yola

Alternative forms

  • brough

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish bróg.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɾɔːɡ/
  • Homophone: brough

Noun

brogue

  1. shoe

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867

Source: wiktionary.org