A heavy oxford-style shoe featuring pinked and perforated detailing.

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," th [..]

A shoe designed in an oxford style with perforation and pinking details.

A 'heavy' balmoral, or oxford-style shoe that flaunts ample 'pinking' (perforations or zig-zag detailing) and 'perforations' in order to accentuate the look of the shoe's seams.

n. Any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people.

(n) a thick and heavy shoe

A brogue is type of dress shoe distinguished by punch-out detail (known as brogueing) that accentuates the lines and curves where the counter, quarters, vamps and/or cap toes join. A full brogue has a winged toe cap. A half brogue (or semi-brogue) has a straight toe cap. The style was popularized by the Prince of Wales in the 1930’s, and the word b [..]

, sb. a strong Irish accent. ‘He has a brogue you could hang your hat on,’ i.e. a very strong brogue.

A strong dialectal accent. In Ireland it used to be a term for Irish spoken with a strong English accent, but gradually changed to mean English spoken with a strong Irish accent as English control o [..]