brog

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic brog. Compare brob.

• IPA^(key): /bɹɒɡ/

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brog (plural brogs)

1. A pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.

brog (third-person singular simple present brogs, present participle brogging, simple past and past participle brogged)

1. (transitive) To prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.
   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as Duncan Forbes, and that other Arniston chield there, without muckle greater parts, if the close-head speak true, than mysell, maun be presidents

2. To broggle.

• Borg, Grob, borg

From English frog.

brog

1. frog