boughten

“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.”

1844, Seba Smith, “The First Blood of the Revolution”, The Rover, volume 3, number 20, page 306

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.

1844, Major Jack Downing, “A Brief Sketch of Uncle Joshua”, in John Keese, editor, The Wintergreen, page 48

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.

1933, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy, Harper, published 1971, →ISBN, page 86

(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."

1954, Beverly Cleary, Henry and Ribsy, 2001 1st Scholastic edition, page 113

"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."

1967, Beverly Cleary, Mitch and Amy, HarperCollins, published 2009, →ISBN, page 17

Lumber has been boughten for the sawhorse table. Woo!

2010 November 7, lindsay @ hello hue (@hello_hue), Twitter