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breenge

/ briːndʒ /

verb

  1. to lunge forward; move violently or dash

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a violent movement

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of breenge1

of unknown origin
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Example Sentences

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The problem with legacies and the obsession of departing leaders to bequeath them is that the wrong sort can breenge in and wreck the place.

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"Johnny," said his mother once, "what do you breenge into the bushes to watch those nasty things for?"

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So with his coat flapping lordly on either side of him, his hands deep in his trousers pockets, and his hat on the back of his head, he drove at the swing-doors with an outshot chest, and entered with a "breenge."

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The poor beast made a breenge and got a hat on its snout, and then a fling o' its heid ended matters, and there was the pig in the deacon's hat, and sair pit aboot was the pig, and sairer the deacon.

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Wis that the breenge o' a bullet?

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