Meanings
- archaicparticiplepastpast participle of fight
No, not a thousand foughten fields could sponge Those days paternal from my memory […]
1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act I, scene III, verses 44-452 more examples
Not that I was afraid of fighting, for now I had been three years at Blundell's, and foughten, all that time, a fight at least once every week [...].
1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, section II“the field must be foughten in our own presence, and divers weighty causes call us on the fourth day from hence.”
1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*fuhtanaz
- Old Englishfohten
- Middle Englishfoughten
- Englishfoughten
From Middle English foughten, foghten, ifoghten, from Old English fohten, ġefohten, from Proto-Germanic *fuhtanaz, past participle of *fehtaną (“to comb; struggle with; fight”), equivalent to fought + -en. Cognate with Scots fochten, fochtin, Dutch gevochten. More at fight.
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foughten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foughten
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