brough

From Middle English breoken, from Old English brecan, from Proto-West Germanic *brekan.

• brocke, brek

• IPA^(key): /bɾɔːɡ/, /bɾɔk/, /bɾɛk/
• Homophone: brogue

brough (simple past broughet or brake)

1. to break

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.

• 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