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boughten
bought·en B0417200 (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.boughten (ˈbɔːtən) adj a dialect word for bought2store′-bought`
adj. commercially made rather than homemade. Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | boughten - purchased; not homemade; "my boughten clothes"; "a store-bought dress"store-boughtfactory-made - produced in quantity at a factory |
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