boughten
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of boughten
Example Sentences
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Better to go down dignified With boughten friendship at your side Than none at all.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jonathan Carrick had been a "boughten boy," indentured when he was four for $15 to an ice-hearted tobacco farmer named Alvah Stoke.
From Time Magazine Archive
The boughten friendship goes on at the box office; Wayne will continue to provide, provide at the rate of two pictures a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
“But the College could’ve boughten her at any time after she showed: seven months, eight, nine. Any.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Likely," answered Dorothy, "but I am anxious to get the tree, and if we do not get it before the storm comes we will have to take a boughten one.
From Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays by Penrose, Margaret
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