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broguery

noun

Etymology

From brogue + -ery.

  1. derived from barróg — “a hold (on the tongue)”
  2. derived from *brōks✻ — “breeches”
  3. derived from brók — “breeches”
  4. derived from bróc — “shoe, greave, legging, hose, breeches”
  5. borrowed from bróg — “boot, shoe”
  6. suffixed as broguery — “brogue + ery”

Definitions

  1. The presence of a brogue in speech.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for broguery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA