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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

brung en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /bɹʊŋ/ (Midlands, Northern-England)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbɹʌŋ/
  • /bɹʊŋɡ/ (Midlands, Northern-England) without the NG-coalescence

Etymology

Perhaps by analogy with other strong verbs, but compare also the Old English past forms brunge, brungon and past participle variant brungen (“brought”).

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, dialectal, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past) simple past and past participle of bring
    form of bring
    • Who's the pretty filly you brung along? 2017, Loren D. Estleman, Shoot: A Valentino Mystery:
    • I had enough left for coffee and two orders of beans and bread, the second of which I made sandwiches from and brung them back for my brother Bill. 1999, Thomas Berger, “Deadwood”, in The Return of Little Big Man, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 11:

Relateds

brought · brang