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Definition of Boughten
1. Adjective. Purchased; not homemade. "A store-bought dress"
Definition of Boughten
1. a. Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.
Definition of Boughten
1. Adjective. (archaic or regional chiefly US) Characterized as having been purchased or bought versus handmade. ¹
2. Verb. (archaic or regional chiefly US) (past participle of buy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boughten
1. purchased [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boughten
Literary usage of Boughten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"Bough-house, n. house opened at fair-time only, for the sale of liquor. (Pershore.)
Suppressed 1863. boughten, adj. ready-made. ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"boughten. Used (1793, 1805) by Coleridge and Southey: NED 1825 The sight of the
white " boughten " stockings provoked [him].—John Neal, ' Brother Jonathan,' ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"boughten. Which is bought. This is a common word in the interior of New England
and New ... West India sugar or coffee is then called boughten sugar, &c. ..."
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