brawt

English

Verb

brawt

  1. Eye dialect spelling of brought.
    • 1883, “Journal of a Yankee Girl: A Nawty-Biography”, in The Tatler‎, volume 1, page 147:
      "Ware in all the wide wurld was a man, and has bin ni to death's dore, evvur brawt bak to life to be so insulted in his own house."
    • 1918, James Ford Rhodes, History of the Civil War, 1861-1865‎, page 259:
      "The young man belonged to 1 of the first famerlies in Utiky. I sood him, and the Joory brawt in a verdick of Arson in the 3rd degree."
    • 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings‎, page 29:
      When he said wuz h'any h'aggressive weapon brawt into play? I burst out laughing and my mother said I should excuse myself.
    • 2014, Kevin J. Ryan, Thinning the Herd‎, page 285:
      "I did a lot of stealin' in my time, but I never hurt nobody. I never should hav brawt the gun. Sorry."
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