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brung

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[bruhng] / brʌŋ /

verb

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  1. a past participle and simple past tense of bring.


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It’s an awkward dance with a porcupine, especially if it was the porcupine who brung you to the dance in the first place.

From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2023

As he says nearly every time he speaks before union crowds, including audiences of longshoremen: “Folks, there’s an expression where I come from: ‘You go home with them that brung you to the dance.’

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2022

Sean, you gotta dance with the one who brung ya.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2022

Mr. Biden told the crowd, “We have an expression where I come from: You never forget those who brung you to the dance.”

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2020

“Why,” he said, relieved to have gotten off the subject of her mother, “why she’s just fine. Right out front in the wagon. I brung her to you.”

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

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