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adj
Compromised by money from special interests; corrupt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
The part of a sling that contains the stone.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
simple past and past participle of buy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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History
See buy.
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.
