Boughten bread

[James A. Landau]

"boughten" is in the OED, with a first citation of 1793, from Coleridge of
all people
"The Commune's villian friendship, And Henriot's boughten succours"

It is "used _poet._ for the sake of metre, otherwise only _dial._ and in US
in application to purchased as opposed to home-made articles."

I don't recall ever having heard "boughten"; the adjective was
"store-bought".  I must admit I don't recall ever having heard "store-bought" used in
conversation, except jocularly, but I must have run across it numerous times in text
purporting to show frontier dialog.

OED has "store-bought" with a suspiciously late first citation of 1952 (John
Steinbeck, _East of Eden_), and a variation not so far mentioned in ADS_L,
"store-boughten" with an 1883 first citation.

OT:  two neologisms found in the local newspaper this week:
1) after the Eagles-Cowboys game, one member of the Eagle's secondary boasted
"We covered our asses off"
2) in an article about developers taking over old airfields, someone was
quoted as complaining about the developers building "McMansions".  Now "mcjobs" is
plausible and reasonably obvious in meaning, but what the Mac is a
"McMansion"?

Note:  somebody referred to "mcjobs" as a portmanteau.  I would say rather
that it is yet another suffix added onto the highly productive stem "mc-"

     - James A. Landau

PS.  "Jockey of Norfolk, be not bold
        For Dickson thy master is boughten sold"
which a tin-eared typesetter on the First Folio misrendered as "bought and
sold"