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boughten.

Having been purchased or bought (rather than homemade), storebought.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈbɔːtən/
  1. Having been purchased or bought (rather than homemade), storebought.

    Canada · Cornwall · US · West-Country · archaic · dialectal · not-comparable · rare
    Is that a boughten chair?
Where this word comes from

From bought + -en (past participle ending of some verbs).

verb/ˈbɔːtən/
  1. past participle of buy

    US · archaic · dialectal · form-of · participle · past · rare
    He has boughten that brand of cereal before.
Where this word comes from

From bought + -en (past participle ending of some verbs).

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