brogue

英 [br??g] 美[brog]

暢通詞匯

復數:?brogues;

brogue 拷花皮鞋，土腔

brogue, 拷花皮鞋，來自蘇格蘭高地方言，后成為土腔的代名詞。比較pidgin, 來自舊時上海碼頭工人對business的發音，就成了蹩腳英語的代名詞。

brogue: 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).

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.

5. Your Scottish brogue might be terrible, but it'll still be funnier than not trying at all.: 也許你的蘇格蘭口音聽起來糟糕透頂.但是盡力模仿總比不模仿更有意思.