brough

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Etymology 1

From Middle English breoken, from Old English brecan, from Proto-West Germanic *brekan.

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Pronunciation

Verb

brough (simple past broughet or brake)

  1. to break

Etymology 2

Noun

brough

  1. Alternative form of brogue
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 96:
      To his sweethearth, an smack lick a dab of a brough.
      To his sweetheart, and smacked like a slap of a shoe.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 28
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