(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.
Lilt
Definition:
(v. i.) To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.
(v. i.) To sing cheerfully.
(v. t.) To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
(1) All O157 serogroup isolates (n = 9) were hemolytic, and 89% (8 of 9) were LILT positive.
(2) Lu, who declined to give her full name for fear of reprisals, has a short bob haircut, a round face and soft, lilting voice that belies an undercurrent of outrage.
(3) During this performance Gaga will perform the title track from her forthcoming album ARTPOP and utter a line that sums up everything her fans love about her and her critics detest: "My art-pop could mean anything," she coos over a lilting electronic throb.
(4) The culture secretary's tone was softer than usual, devoid of lilt.
(5) With less demand for big-screen expressions of either cathartic angst or romantic wish-fulfilment, we have instead witnessed a kind of gay cinematic present-mindedness in small-scale, naturalistic, bittersweet titles such as Weekend , Keep the Lights On and I Want Your Love ; and a willingness to explore grief, so often deferred through the years of struggle, in the likes of Last Address , Tom at the Farm and Lilting , a forthcoming feature starring Ben Whishaw as a man in mourning obliged to deal with his late partner's mother.
(6) With his black cowboy boots and a lilting accent that seems to hint at the South, he looks an unlikely visionary for urban Detroit as he describes vegetable plots, fields and greenhouses, all the while wielding a hefty stick to keep away stray dogs and looking at burnt-out houses sometimes used as crack dens.
(7) It was with the appearance of the retired merchant navy man Norman, however, with his lilting Scottish accent and homemade "skateboard" presentation platter (it must be seen to be believed) that an entire nation fell in love.
(8) The children and the quartet, as a small chamber orchestra, play a lilting performance of "Autumn", 13 Stations of the Cross as backdrop.
(9) The opening film will be the European premiere of Hong Khaou's Lilting , which stars Ben Whishaw as a man in mourning for the death of his lover Kai.
(10) Sitting in the bar beforehand, Kate is dressed in Adidas tracksuit and trainers, every word she says doused in her south London lilt.
(11) Our common enemies remain economy-trashing financiers and poverty-paying bosses, whether they speak in an Edinburgh lilt or with the Queen’s English.
(12) Howson briefly joins us, sinking into a chair in the corner and addressing my questions in an undemonstrative West Yorkshire lilt.
(13) As am I. I could spend the rest of this piece delighting you with the wonders of the People's Republic of Cork – our smiling, clever, children, gentle lilting voices, our rolling hills but I'm going to assume you already know all this.
(14) The voice is strong, with a vaguely mid-western lilt.
(15) It's a beautiful voice with its educated, New England lilt of a kind that barely exists anymore.
(16) Songs, such as Gil's anthem Domingo no Parque (Sunday in the Park), had a lilting nonchalance, lent by the bossa nova style (a mix of African-Brazilian samba and cool jazz) they had inherited - and superseded.
(17) • I Am Divine is out on 18 July, Lilting is out on 8 August, and Pride is out on 12 September.
(18) While the video is kind of dull, the song is another quietly arresting slither of emotional pop, De la Torre’s hushed vocal sighing its way through a chorus of: “All I wanted was a man to be true, but that isn’t you.” Subtler and more refined than a lot of pop music at the moment, it even ends with a lilting whistling solo – and there simply aren’t enough of those.
(19) Twenty-seven nonhemolytic isolates were tested for enterotoxigenicity; of these, 45% (12) were LILT positive.
(20) Of all hemolytic isolates tested, 59% (10 of 17) were LILT positive.