Seebuy.
bought
- simplepast andpastparticiple ofbuy.
Shebought an expensive bag last week.
People havebought gas masks.
Our products can bebought at your local store.
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, inThe Economist[1], volume407, number8837, page74: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%.
It is common to hear native English speakers (particularly in Australia, New Zealand and Britain) use "bought" when meaning "brought" (andvice versa) despite the fact that the two words mean different things[2][3]. Sometimes this mistake makes its way into print[4],[5],[6].
FromMiddle Englishbought,bowght,bouȝt,*buȝt, probably an alteration ofbight,biȝt,byȝt(“bend, bight”) afterbowen,buwen,buȝen(“to bow, bend”). Cognate withScotsboucht,bucht,bout(“bend”). More atbight andbout.
bought (pluralboughts)
- (obsolete) A bend;flexure; curve; a hollowangle.
- (obsolete) Abend orhollow in a human or animal body.
- (obsolete) Acurve orbend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
1612, John Smith,Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published1988, page159:the river it selfe turneth North east and is stil a navigable streame. On the westerne side of thisbought is Tauxenent with 40 men.
- (obsolete) The part of asling that contains thestone.
- (obsolete) Afold,bend, orcoil in a tail, snake's body etc.
