6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
noun a thick and heavy shoe
originBorrowed from Irish bróg (“boot, shoe”), from Old Irish bróc (“shoe, greave, legging, hose, breeches”), likely from Old Norse brók (“breeches”), from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“breeches”). The "accent" sense may instead be derived from Irish barróg (“a hold (on the tongue)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0