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Brogan

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.
  2. 2
    A male given name.
  3. 3
    A female given name.
  4. 4
    A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  5. 5
    A census-designated place in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A heavy working shoe; a brogue.

    "The wind gusted through, shivering me, so that my waterlogged brogans were like ice against my feet."

  2. 2
    a thick and heavy shoe wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Brógáin (“descendants of Brógán”), probably from a diminutive of bróg (“shoe”).

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