Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Plural of
ought .
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Examples
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“John-John oughten been telling you stuff like that about me.”
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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“John-John oughten been telling you stuff like that about me.”
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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“John-John oughten been telling you stuff like that about me.”
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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Someone nicely, I thought tried to explain how Ackle's performance was just as compelling as Padalecki's and oughten I to give that more attention?
Supernatural: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid - Pink Raygun.com 2010
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And sithe that foules, that han no kyndely wytt ne resoun, gon thidre to seche that gloriouse virgyne; wel more oughten men than to seche hire and to worschipen hire.
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And sithe that foules, that han no kyndely wytt ne resoun, gon thidre to seche that gloriouse virgyne; wel more oughten men than to seche hire and to worschipen hire.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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RUMSFELD: Well, I've been reading for weeks that the United States is all alone and oughten that to tell us something.
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I was jest a little child but I knowed I oughten to go without my clothes.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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I think I oughten to git lef 'out 'cause I help myself when I could.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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In the negative, ought not has degenerated to oughten, as in you oughten do that.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 3. The Verb Henry Louis 1921
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