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brogans noun heavy work shoes US, 1835 From the Gaelic. During the US Civil War, the sturdy and durable leather shoes issued to infantrymen were nicknamed Brogans or Jefferson Booties.- They took one of the opened bottles with them from which Agatson drank continually, brazenly, as he stumbled along in his oversize G.I. brogans. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 219, 1952
- Vice President Nixon will put his shoes under Ike’s bed before the voters decide whether he can fill the presidential brogans. — San Francisco News Call-Bulletin, p. 19, 6 September 1960
- He let her up to put her skirt and shoes on while he finished lacing his brogans. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, 1968
- [M]any of us bought him a beer and a Polish sausage when he came in with his paint-splattered cords and brown brogans, broke as ever. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, p. 47, 1972
- The very next evening, Daddy came home with shoes for Betty, John and me–three pairs of black, sturdy, strong, steel-toed brogans. — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 37, 1978
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