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boughten

bought·en [ báwt'n ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
U.S. regional not homemade: commercially made rather than homemade

[Late 18th century. <bought after foughten, archaic form of fought]

Regional History

The term boughten endures as a Northern folk term spreading westward out of New England, across the Northern states to the Pacific and virtually unused in the South Midland and Southern states. It is commonly still heard in the compound store-boughten, as in I don't like store-boughten bread.

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