brough
Yola edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English breoken, from Old English brecan, from Proto-West Germanic *brekan.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
brough (simple past broughet or brake)
- to break
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
brough
- 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 edit
- 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