Foughten

//ˈfɔːtən// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    past participle of fight archaic, form-of, participle, past

    "Not that I was afraid of fighting, for now I had been three years at Blundell's, and foughten, all that time, a fight at least once every week [...]."

Etymology

From Middle English foughten, foghten, ifoghten, from Old English fohten, ġefohten, from Proto-Germanic *fuhtanaz, past participle of *fehtaną (“to comb; struggle with; fight”), equivalent to fought + -en. Cognate with Scots fochten, fochtin, Dutch gevochten. More at fight.

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