Meaning & use
boughten
Bought from a store rather than homemade; a chiefly regional or dialectal term in American English.
See it in a sentence
Grandma insisted her boughten pies never tasted as good as her homemade ones.
The children were thrilled with their boughten costumes instead of sewn ones.
A note on using this word
Boughten is nonstandard in most contexts today; standard English simply uses bought or the compound store-bought.
Words with a similar meaning
store-bought
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Words with an opposite meaning
homemade
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