breenge

English

Etymology

Unknown. Attested since at least the 19th century. Compare Scots breenge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹiːnd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːndʒ

Noun

breenge (plural breenges)

1. (Scotland) A plunge, a violent movement.

Verb

breenge (third-person singular simple present breenges, present participle breenging or breengeing, simple past and past participle breenged)

1. (Scotland, intransitive) To lunge forward, to dash ahead, to move recklessly.
   • 1908, Robert Barr, On the Border, page 105:

     He comes breenging in on a private conference of his betters, carrying their sentinel on his head like a shambled sheep, and flings him in a corner.

   • 2018 February 10, “Reds Get Back to Winning Ways in 10 Try Thriller”, in The Reds Linlithgow Rugby Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 May 2019:

     His two tries came from a typical breengeing run in the first half and from a pushover try in the final quarter of the match.

References

• “breenge”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “breenge”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Scots

Etymology

Origin unknown, but compare brainyell (“to rush violently”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /brindʒ/, /brendʒ/

Noun

breenge (plural breenges)

1. a plunge, a dash, a breenge
2. a blow, a punch
3. a fit of anger

Verb

breenge (third-person singular simple present breenges, present participle breengein, simple past breenget, past participle breenget)

1. (intransitive) to rush, to move recklessly
   • 1949, John Walter Oliver, editor, A Scots Anthology, The Eemis-stane, page 488:

     Monie a simmer's day, whan it was owre hot / To breenge eftir a butterflee

     Many a summer's day, when it was too hot / To breenge behind a butterfly

2. (transitive) to drive forward, to push
   • 1970, Somhairle MacGill-Eain, Four Points of a Saltire, page 78:

     West she trampt, an' the white ridges lik bauchkans oot o the night came breengein against her quarter.

     West she tramped, and the white clods like weak spells came out of the night pushing against her bottom.

3. (transitive) to slam (a door)

References

• “Breenge, v. and n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.