brog

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic bròg. Compare brob.

• IPA^(key): /bɹɒɡ/

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brog (plural brogs)

1. (obsolete) A pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.

brog (third-person singular simple present brogs, present participle brogging, simple past and past participle brogged)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.

   Synonym: broggle

   • 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as Duncan Forbes, and that other Arniston chield there, without muckle greater parts, if the close-head speak true, than mysell, maun be presidents

   • 1820 March, [Walter Scott], The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:

     the stony-hearted villains were brogging them on wi' their lances!

brog (plural brogs)

1. Pronunciation spelling of brogue

• “brog”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Borg, Grob, borg

From English frog.

brog

1. frog