bought
Noun pluralboughts
Pluralboughts
- 1Simple past and past participle of buy. Use this form for buying that already happened.
She bought a new bicycle with her birthday money.
They bought groceries before the storm hit.
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- 2Controlled in secret by people who pay for favors, and so not honest.
Like a referee who has secretly been paid to favor one team.
Voters suspected the mayor was bought long before the scandal broke.
A bought official will always side with whoever fills his pockets.
Similarcorrupt, venal, crooked
Oppositeincorruptible, honest, clean
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- 3A curve or bend in a river, a range of hills, or another land feature.
The river twisted into a wide bought below the old mill.
the river it selfe turneth North east and is stil a navigable streame. On the westerne side of this bought is Tauxenent with 40 men.
1612, John Smith, Map of VirginiaHere, bought means a bend where the river curves.Note
- 4A bend or hollow part of a person's or animal's body.
The child nestled into the bought of his mother's arm.
A small wound festered in the bought behind the horse's knee.
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- 5A fold, bend, or coil in a tail or a snake's body.
Her huge long taile her den all ouerspred, / Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, / Pointed with mortall sting.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie QueeneHere, boughtes means coils or folds in the long tail.Note
- 6A bend, curve, or hollow angle in something.
The blacksmith hammered a sharp bought into the iron rod.
Water pooled in the bought where the two walls met.
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- 7The pouch of a sling that holds the stone.
David set the smooth stone into the bought and swung the sling overhead.
A torn bought spilled the shepherd's stone before he could throw.
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bought is a form of buy
buy, verb: To get something by paying money for it, for yourself or for someone else. Full entry
- Spelling
- buy → bought: irregular (no -ed)
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Origin
It comes from the Middle English word "bought," which probably was a changed form of "bight," meaning a bend, influenced by the word for "to bow" or "bend."