boughten

adj

1. (Canada, Cornwall, US, West-Country, archaic, dialectal, not-comparable, rare)Having been purchased or bought (rather than homemade), storebought.

   “Is that a boughten chair?”

   ““Well, it’s nothin’ at all in the world,” said she, “only I strongly expect Miss Niles drinks boughten tea, and if I knew she did, I’d never set my foot in her house again.””

   “The round straw hat that he had on was boughten ; for there was nobody in Downingville in them days that understood making straw hats, though, since that time, they’ve got to making a plenty of ’em.”

   “Poor people had to wear homespun on Sundays, and Royal and Almanzo wore fullcloth. But Father and Mother and the girls were very fine, in clothes that Mother had made of store-boughten cloth, woven by machines.”

   “(After the children's mothers cut their hair): "It's all right for you guys to laugh. You're in the same room at school and you can stick together, but I'll be the only one in my room who doesn't have a boughten haircut."”

verb

1. (US, archaic, dialectal, form-of, participle, past, rare)past participle of buy

   “He has boughten that brand of cereal before.”

   “Lumber has been boughten for the sawhorse table. Woo!”