bought

Etymology 1

See buy.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of buy.
   She bought an expensive bag last week.
   People have bought gas masks.
   Our products can be bought at your local store.
   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%. 2013-05-25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74

Etymology 2

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

noun

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.
   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 Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 159
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.