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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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BRUNG, v., pa.t. and pa.p. of bring. Gen.Sc. except Cai. and Bnff. [brʌŋ]Edb. 1791 J. Learmont Poems 296:
Your Honour kens, and mony ane I trow, That she's brung hame accomplishments anew.Gall.(D) 1901 Trotter Gall. Gossip 43:
The doctor brung him in tae gie him a dram.

[Not in D.O.S.T. Found in Mod.Eng. dial. of 19th cent.; either a survival of rare O.E. pa.p. brungen, or more prob. formed on the analogy of sing, sung, ring, rung.]

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