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.
Example:
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..."