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).
雙語例句
1. Gill speaks in a quiet Irish brogue.
吉爾說話帶有輕微的愛爾蘭口音。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Grandfather spoke with a thick Scottish brogue.
祖父說話帶有很重的蘇格蘭土腔.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. You can spot an Irishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue.
你們一聽愛爾蘭人或者約克郡人的土音,就能辨別出他是哪里的人.
來自辭典例句
4. He spoke in a thick brogue.
他說話帶著很重的口音.
來自辭典例句
5. Your Scottish brogue might be terrible, but it'll still be funnier than not trying at all.