Irish or
Irish-American colloquialism for shoes, boots, or other footwear (noun); derived from "brogue," the lilting accent with which most people of Celtic/
Irish extraction speak, most commonly whilst intoxicated.
1. "Get those brogans off the table, you drunken black Irish
bastard, or else somebody in this family's going to
die."
2. Mr. Conroy: "Charlie! What happened to your brogans???? You better not have lost them because I put in tons and tons of overtime painting houses just to buy them, you ungrateful little son of a bitch."
Little Charlie: Tommy Adams and his cronies yanked them off me and threw them in the Allegheny when I was walking home from
school today."
Mr. Conroy: "Goddamn it!!!" {chugs down the rest of his Iron City, slaps Little Charlie in the back of the head, gets up from kitchen table, and grabs baseball
bat}. "I guess I'm going to have pay a social call to his old
man, then..."
