boughten

bought·en

 (bôt′n) Chiefly Northern US

v.

A past participle of buy.

adj.

1. Commercially made; purchased, as opposed to homemade: boughten bread.

2. Artificial; false. Used of teeth.

Our Living Language American regional dialects allow freer adjectival use of certain past participles of verbs than does Standard English. Time-honored examples are boughten (chiefly Northern US) and bought (chiefly Southern US) to mean "purchased rather than homemade": a boughten dress, bought bread. The Northern form boughten (as in store boughten) features the participial ending -en, added to bought, the participial form, probably by analogy with more common participial adjectives such as frozen.

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boughten

(ˈbɔːtən)

adj

a dialect word for bought²

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store′-bought`

adj.

commercially made rather than homemade.

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Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

boughten - purchased; not homemade; "my boughten clothes"; "a store-bought dress" store-bought factory-made - produced in quantity at a factory

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