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/ˈbɔːtən/ · adjective
(rare, archaic or dialectal, West Country, Cornwall, Canada, US) 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.
(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."
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.
"Did you build it all by yourself?"[…] "I have a boughten one at home," said Mitchell, indignant at the way he was being treated. "I just wanted to see if I could make one that would work."
He has boughten that brand of cereal before.
Lumber has been boughten for the sawhorse table. Woo!
Use boughten when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Boughten means (rare, archaic or dialectal, West Country, Cornwall, Canada, US) Having been purchased or bought (rather than homemade), storebought..
Common synonyms include store, store-bought, factory-made.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Is that a boughten chair?
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