Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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Quotation dates: 1791, 1901
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BRUNG, v., pa.t. and pa.p. From 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.
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