英语词汇boughten goods的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	boughten goods
词源	boughten goods. Once common as a participal adjective in the U.S., boughten is rarely heard any more, though it is listed in the O.E.D. as poetic dialect and an Americanism. Boughten goods is sometimes used today as a pseudo-rustic term mean- ing “manufactured or store bought things that are valued above familiar, homemade ones.”
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