brogan
brogan noun: a heavy working shoe; a brogue.
Noun
brogan (plural brogans)
- A heavy working shoe; a brogue.
- The wind gusted through, shivering me, so that my waterlogged brogans were like ice against my feet.2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer, Penguin Books (2020), page 65
- Whoever's idea it was to depict Eddie Kendricks wearing an oversized orange sweater, baggy pants, and dull brown brogan loafers on the cover should have been fired.(Can we date this quote?), Andrew Hamilton, “Something More Review”, in allmusic.com, archived from the original on 10 May 2013, people
Proper noun capitalized: Brogan
Brogan (plural Brogans)
- A surname from Irish.
- A male given name.
- A female given name.
- A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- A census-designated place in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.
Forms of brogan
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | brogans |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Brogans |
Origin of brogan
An alteration of brogue. Most dictionaries give the source as Irish *brógán (from bróg (“shoe”) + -án (diminutive suffix)) or its Scottish Gaelic equivalent, but no such word can be confirmed to exist in either language (apart from the given name Brógán, the source of the surname Brogan).
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Brógáin (“descendants of Brógán”), probably from a diminutive of bróg (“shoe”).
Questions about brogan
- What does brogan mean?
- Brogan means a heavy working shoe; a brogue.
- What part of speech is brogan?
- Brogan can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of brogan?
- The plural of brogan is brogans.
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