Boughten

//ˈbɔːtən// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    past participle of buy US, archaic, dialectal, form-of, participle, past, rare

    "He has boughten that brand of cereal before."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having been purchased or bought (rather than homemade), storebought. Canada, Cornwall, US, West-Country, archaic, dialectal, not-comparable, rare

    "Is that a boughten chair?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    purchased; not homemade wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
ready madestorestore boughtstore-bought

Example

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"Poor people had to wear homespun on Sundays, and Royal and Almanzo wore fullcloth. But Father and Mother and the girls were very fine, in clothes that Mother had made of store-boughten cloth, woven by machines."

Etymology

From bought + -en (past participle ending of some verbs).

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