brung
Americanverb
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We’re setting aside most franchises, since you have to dance with the IP that brung ya.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2025
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
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
No, it wasn’t “Newt Scamander only went to New York to find a Pulkmahjkk”, or “I brung bick Harry. U gladd. Me go wurcke now. No speak.”
From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2014
Shooting that pistol wore Ma right out; when she brung it down she looked more beat than she would working the fields from sunup to sundown on a hot July day.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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