brough

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Verb

brough

  1. Alternative form of brocke (“to break”)

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 (1867), 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, page 28 & 96
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