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Origin:
1680–90; perhaps special use of brogue2
1680–90; perhaps special use of brogue2
Related forms
bro·guer·y, noun
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Brogue
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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noun
1.
a durable, comfortable, low-heeled shoe, often having decorative perforations and a wing tip.
2.
a coarse, usually untanned leather shoe once worn in Ireland and Scotland.
3.
Origin:
1580–90; < Irish brōg shoe, Old Irish brōce; cognate with L. brācae trousers < Gaulish; see breech
1580–90; < Irish brōg shoe, Old Irish brōce; cognate with L. brācae trousers < Gaulish; see breech
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Word Origin & History
brogue
type of Celtic accent, 1705, perhaps from the meaning "rough, stout shoe" worn by rural Irish and Scottish highlanders (1580s), via Gaelic or Irish, from O.Ir. broce "shoe," thus originally meaning something like "speech of those who call a shoe a brogue." Or perhaps it is from O.Ir. barrog "a hold"
EXPAND (on the tongue).
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