Claymore vs Brogue - What's the difference?
claymore | brogue |
A large two-handed sword historically used by the Scottish Highlanders.
The Scottish basket-hilted broadsword used during the early modern period.
(usually capitalized) A Claymore antipersonnel mine.
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 of Ireland gradually increased and Irish waned as the standard language.
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A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
(dated) A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
(intransitive) To speak with a brogue (accent).
To walk.
To kick.
To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
(dialect) to fish for eels by disturbing the waters
As a proper noun claymore
is an american-made anti-personnel mine designed to lay down a wide arc of steel ball bearings in order to inflict casualties.As a noun brogue is
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 of ireland gradually increased and irish waned as the standard language.As a verb brogue is
(intransitive) to speak with a brogue (accent) or brogue can be (dialect) to fish for eels by disturbing the waters.claymore
English
(wikipedia claymore)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (The Scottish basket-hilted broadsword) claybeg ----brogue
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 62:
- I had no doubt he knew where I was from, for I had the brogue , although not much of it.
page 187:
- “No-man's-land.” The words were spoken in a deep voice filled with salt water and brogue .