What's the difference between brigue and brogue?

Brigue


Definition:

  • (n.) A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel.
  • (n.) To contend for; to canvass; to solicit.

Example Sentences:

Brogue


Definition:

  • (n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogan.
  • (v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.
  • (2) Photograph: Thomas Karlsson Writer Will Coldwell put on his best hipster brogues, turned up his jeans, and sought out a different side of Europe’s major cities in covering these innovative walking tours that revel in art, history, food, drink – and even financial mismanagement.
  • (3) He looks like a disgusted George Clooney, or a man arguing about brogues in a hotel foyer in a Tom Ford film.
  • (4) Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, plus Sun noon-6pm in July and August The Oxford Bar Photograph: Alamy When the Inspector Rebus ITV series was relaunched in 2006, with Ken Stott stepping into the scuffed brogues of John Hannah, there was a feeling they had finally got the right man to play Ian Rankin's bruised copper.
  • (5) But last Friday his gravelly brogue was inescapable, at least for anyone tuned to BBC radio news bulletins.
  • (6) She leans back, arms crossed, blue-rimmed glasses nestling in thick blonde waves on top of her head, every now and then interjecting with a quip and a delighted kick of her blue, brogued feet.
  • (7) You don't see enough people running around in brogues and bowler hat these days.
  • (8) Then there are the accents, as bad a representation of the Brummie brogue as you’re ever likely to hear on TV.
  • (9) That it's also one of the best things to have appeared on the BBC in years is almost by the by: this, it booms in its enormous, barrel-lunged Irish brogue, is how to make a relentlessly original, consistently gripping, vast-brained five-part psychological thriller with a gimmick (in essence: let's devote equal attention to the hunter and the hunted) that never feels like a gimmick, but rather the perfect means of exploring the banality of evil, the nature of obsession, and the niggly-squirmy minutiae of everyday, common-or-garden murder.
  • (10) Photograph: Barbie After a survey on the fashion desk, we have decided that we particularly like the vibe of Everyday Chic Curvy Barbie, who has boldly teamed distressed cropped jeans with lace-up black brogues.
  • (11) Just in case we hadn't got the message while sitting (and getting a bit hot and bored) for about an hour for the show to start, Danny himself appeared and spoke unto us in his matey, charismatic Lancashire brogue.
  • (12) shouts out one of the troops, who range from a retired chap of military bearing, wearing a tweed jacket and brown brogue shoes, to a dishevelled fan of Viz comics.
  • (13) The tepid sunshine wobbles in, polishes his shabby brogues, moves shyly across the surface of the dressing table.
  • (14) They dressed accordingly, in blazers and brogues appropriate to a Cape Cod country club, and Koenig sang about Ivy League campuses populated by characters with names like Blake and Bryn.
  • (15) A 65-year-old women developed an Irish brogue immediately after a deep left hemisphere stroke.
  • (16) Crucially, the three banks who placed higher valuations on the Royal Mail and were all ignored by the government didn't take the opportunity to put the leather brogues in.
  • (17) I think she is very good in it, though connoisseurs of the lilting London brogue may disagree.
  • (18) "Yes," you think, as you watch his brogues clacking along another forlorn cobbled boulevard to the strains of a throttled theramin.
  • (19) As well as Céline, a pair of splattered trousers in the J Crew collection already have a buzz about them and Martin Margiela has a pair of very smart brogues covered in paint.
  • (20) The hair is neatly combed and he wears a grey pinstriped suit with a blue shirt and tie, black socks, black brogues and distinct air of civility.

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