brog

See also: bròg, bróg, and Bróg

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic brog. Compare brob.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹɒɡ/

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Noun

brog (plural brogs)

1. A pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.

Translations

pointed instrument

• Finnish: piikki (fi)

Verb

brog (third-person singular simple present brogs, present participle brogging, simple past and past participle brogged)

1. (transitive) To prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.
   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as Duncan Forbes, and that other Arniston chield there, without muckle greater parts, if the close-head speak true, than mysell, maun be presidents

2. To broggle.

Translations

to prod with a pointed instrument

• Finnish: pistää (fi)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “brog”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Borg, Grob, borg

Australian Kriol

Etymology

From English frog.

Noun

brog

1. frog