broguenoun
uk/brəʊɡ/us/broʊɡ/brogue noun (WAY OF SPEAKING)
[ C usually singular ] a way of speaking English, especially that of Irish or Scottish speakers:
She spoke in her soft, lilting brogue.
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Ways of speaking
- accent
- accentuate
- aitch
- asperity
- BBC English
- cut glass
- dialect
- get your tongue around/round sth idiom
- intone
- lenis
- modulate
- monotone
- plummy
- pragmatics
- singsong
- soft-spoken
- speech therapy
- spoken
- stumble
- trip off the tongue idiom
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brogue noun (SHOES)
brogues [ plural ]
strong leather shoes, usually worn by men, often with a pattern in the leather
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Shoes
- ankle boot
- ballet shoe
- Birkenstock
- bootlace
- bootstrap
- gumboot
- high heels
- high-top
- hobnail boot
- insole
- instep
- shoehorn
- shoelace
- shoestring
- shoetree
- skyscraper heels
- spat
- wellington
- welly
- whitening
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