boughten

(bôt'n)

adjective

Dialectal bought at a store and not homemade

See boughten in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb
A past participle of buy.
adjective
  1. Commercially made; purchased, as opposed to homemade: boughten bread.
  2. Artificial; false. Used of teeth.
Regional Note: American regional dialects allow freer adjectival use of certain past participles of verbs than does Standard English. Time-honored examples are boughten (chiefly Northern U.S.) and bought (chiefly Southern U.S.) 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. Another development, analogous to homemade, is evident in bought-made, cited in DARE from a Texas informant.

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