breenge

/ briːndʒ /

verb

1. to lunge forward; move violently or dash

noun

1. a violent movement

Word History and Origins

Origin of breenge¹

of unknown origin

Example Sentences

The problem with legacies and the obsession of departing leaders to bequeath them is that the wrong sort can breenge in and wreck the place.

From The Guardian

"Johnny," said his mother once, "what do you breenge into the bushes to watch those nasty things for?"

From Project Gutenberg

So with his coat flapping lordly on either side of him, his hands deep in his trousers pockets, and his hat on the back of his head, he drove at the swing-doors with an outshot chest, and entered with a "breenge."

From Project Gutenberg

The poor beast made a breenge and got a hat on its snout, and then a fling o' its heid ended matters, and there was the pig in the deacon's hat, and sair pit aboot was the pig, and sairer the deacon.

From Project Gutenberg

Wis that the breenge o' a bullet?

From Project Gutenberg