foughten

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
17
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈfɔːtən/

Definition of foughten

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (archaic, form-of, participle, past)past participle of fight
    “Not that I was afraid of fighting, for now I had been three years at Blundell's, and foughten, all that time, a fight at least once every week [...].”
    “No, not a thousand foughten fields could sponge Those days paternal from my memory […]”
    ““the field must be foughten in our own presence, and divers weighty causes call us on the fourth day from hence.””

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Etymology

From Middle English foughten, foghten, ifoghten, from Old English fohten, ġefohten, from Proto-Germanic *fuhtanaz, past participle of *fehtaną (“to comb; struggle with; fight”), equivalent to fought + -en. Cognate with Scots fochten, fochtin, Dutch gevochten. More at fight.

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