Bought; acquired by purchase—an archaic or dialectal past participle of 'buy,' used particularly in rural or old-fashioned speech.
Dialectal past participle of 'buy,' formed with the '-en' ending that was productive in older English (like 'beaten,' 'eaten'). Now appears mainly in rural dialects and archaic contexts.
'Boughten' survives in Appalachian English and other dialects where people say 'store-boughten' to mean something purchased rather than homemade—it's a live word in communities that maintain older speech patterns.
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