brogue

• n. 粗革皮鞋；拷花皮鞋；土腔（指爱尔兰口音的英语）

brogue, 拷花皮鞋，来自苏格兰高地方言，后成为土腔的代名词。比较pidgin, 来自旧时上海码头工人对business的发音，就成了蹩脚英语的代名词。

brogue

brogue: [16] A brogue was originally a rudimentary sort of shoe worn in the more wild and woolly Celtic corners of the British Isles; the term does not seem to have been applied to today’s ‘stout country walking shoe’ until the early 20th century. The word, Irish and Scots Gaelic brōg, comes from Old Norse brók ‘leg covering’, which is related to English breeches; the relationship between ‘leg covering’ and ‘foot covering’ is fairly close, and indeed from the 17th to the 19th century brogue was used for ‘leggings’.

It is not clear whether brogue ‘Irish accent’ [18] is the same word; if it is, it presumably comes from some such notion as ‘the speech of those who wear brogues’.
=> breeches

brogue (n.)

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 Old Irish broce "shoe," thus originally meaning something like "speech of those who call a shoe a brogue." Or perhaps it is from Old Irish barrog "a hold" (on the tongue).

1. Gill speaks in a quiet Irish brogue.

吉尔说话带有轻微的爱尔兰口音。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Grandfather spoke with a thick Scottish brogue.

祖父说话带有很重的苏格兰土腔.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. You can spot an Irishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue.

你们一听爱尔兰人或者约克郡人的土音,就能辨别出他是哪里的人.

来自辞典例句

4. He spoke in a thick brogue.

他说话带着很重的口音.

来自辞典例句

5. Your Scottish brogue might be terrible, but it'll still be funnier than not trying at all.

也许你的苏格兰口音听起来糟糕透顶.但是尽力模仿总比不模仿更有意思.

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