boughtとは

語源 1

See buy

動詞

bought

1. simple past tense and past participle of buy.
   • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist^[1], volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

     In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

   She bought an expensive bag last week.

   People have bought gas masks.

   Our products can be bought at your local store.

使用する際の注意点

It is common to hear native English speakers (particularly in the 英国用法, Australia かつ New Zealand) using "bought" when meaning "brought" (かつ vice versa) despite the fact that the two words mean different things [2][3]. Sometimes this mistake makes its way into print[4].

派生語

• overbought

語源 2

From Middle English bought, bowght, bouȝt, *buȝt, probably an alteration of Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (“bend, bight”) after Middle English bowen, buwen, buȝen (“to bow, bend”). Cognate with Scots boucht, bucht, bout (“bend”). More at bight.

別の表記

• bout, bowt
• boughte, bughte

名詞

bought (複数形 boughts)

1. (obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
2. (obsolete) A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
3. (obsolete) A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
   • 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, in Kupperman 1988, p. 159:

     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.

4. (obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
5. (obsolete) A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     Her huge long taile her den all ouerspred, / Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, / Pointed with mortall sting.

参照

• bought in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  
• The Oxford English Dictionary.