boughten

bought·en  (bôtn) Chiefly Northern U.S.

v.

A past participle of buy.

adj.

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

2. Artificial; false. Used of teeth.

Regional Note: American regional dialects allow freer adjectival use of certain past participles of verbs than does Standard English. Time-honored examples are boughten (chiefly Northern U.S.) and bought (chiefly Southern U.S.) 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. Another development, analogous to homemade, is evident in bought-made, cited in DARE from a Texas informant.

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boughten [ˈbɔːt^ən]

adj

a dialect word for bought [2]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

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