brough

See also: Brough

English

Etymology

A metathetic form of burgh (“mound, settlement”)[1] employed in a special sense; thus a doublet of it, borough, Brough, burr (“halo, brough”), burrow, and Bury. For the semantic development, compare German Hof (“brough, halo, nimb”).

Pronunciation

Noun

brough (plural broughs)

  1. A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.
    • 1832, Samuel MacSkimin, The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus: From the Earliest Records to the Present Time ; Also a Statistical Survey of Said County, page 271:
      […] about the moon , called a brough, stormy weather is looked for within twenty-four hours; hence it is said, "a far off brough and a near hand storm." If small floating white clouds appear, which are called cat hair, rain is […]
    • 1852, Henry Stephens, The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labors of the Farmer, Steward, Plowman, Hedger, Cattle-man, Shepherd, Field-worker, and Dairyman:
      The corona or brough occurs when the sun or moon is seen through a thin cirro-stratus cloud, the portion of the cloud more immediately around the sun or moon appearing much lighter than the rest.
    • 1859, Robert Macadam, Francis Joseph Bigger, Robert Magill Young, Ulster Journal of Archæology ..., page 84:
      The County Antrim farmers say that bad weather may be expected whenever the new moon appears "on her back, with the new moon in her arms, and a brough round her," meaning by this the appearance […]
    • 1912, Chambers's Journal, page 527:
      Swainson, in his Weather Folklore, quotes: About the moon there is a brough, The weather will be cauld and rough.
    • 1955, British Bee Journal:
      ... broughs which appeared around the moon  […]

Alternative forms

References

  1. ^ Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “burr1”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology‎[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 129; reprinted 1994.

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Etymology 1

From Middle English breoken, from Old English brecan, from Proto-West Germanic *brekan.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bruːx/, /brɔk/, /brɛk/

Verb

brough (simple past broughet or brake)

  1. to break

Etymology 2

Noun

brough

  1. alternative form of brogue
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 96:
      To his sweethearth, an smack lick a dab of a brough.
      To his sweetheart, and smacked like a slap of a shoe.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 28
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