Brogue
/broʊɡ/noun
A stout leather shoe, especially one with decorative perforations; also an Irish or Scottish accent.
Did you know?The accent sense of *brogue* arose in Irish English, probably from the idea of speech sounding as if it were 'marked' or 'stamped' like the shoe, not from any mystical origin.
Etymological Timeline
Early Modern English
English
brogue
“A rough shoe, especially a stout outdoor shoe”
17th Century
English
brogue
“An Irish or Scottish way of speaking; an accent”
Middle Irish
Irish
bróg
“Shoe”
Old Irish
Irish
bróc
“Shoe”
Proto-Celtic
PCelt
*brāko-
“Shoe, covering for the foot”