brung
Dialect for brought
Brung is a nonstandard past tense and past participle of bring, used in some regional dialects and casual speech: I brung my guitar.
Standard English uses brought.
Brung appears in folksy or humorous contexts, sometimes deliberately: You dance with them that brung you.
Moved while holding
- conveyedTransferred or expressed
- deliveredBrought to recipient
- fetchedWent and got
- transportedMoved between locations
hauled · toted · lugged · schlepped · taken · transferred · relocated · moved
Breaking syntax rules
- dialectalOf regional speech patterns
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- colloquialCasual, everyday language
- informalRelaxed, not official
irregular · solecism · misusage · stigmatized · prescriptivism · uneducated · folksy · rustic
Eastern U.S. mountain region
- SouthernOf the region below
- ruralOf the countryside
- regionalRelating to an area
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
spoken · oral tradition · countrified · down-home · working-class · blue-collar · heartland · authenticity
carried
Moved while holding
transported · hauled · toted · lugged · schlepped · taken · transferred · relocated · moved · gathered
ungrammatical
Breaking syntax rules
- dialectalOf regional speech patterns
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- colloquialCasual, everyday language
informal · irregular · solecism · misusage · stigmatized · prescriptivism · uneducated · folksy · rustic · homespun
Appalachian
Eastern U.S. mountain region
vernacular · spoken · oral tradition · countrified · down-home · working-class · blue-collar · heartland · authenticity · roots
brungtook
Grasped in the past
taken · carried away · removed · sent · dispatched
bring, brought, brings, bringing, upbringing, bringer, bringers