Gotten (1 Viewer)

[Jim Daniels]

Is this a real word..?

Whatever about its use in conversation, I keep seeing it in print and it just looks ridiculous.

"gotten used to ..."
"gotten a new car.."
etc

 

[broken arm]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Gotten+&x=18&y=17

 

[Jim Daniels]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Gotten+&x=18&y=17

Thats bizarre

 

[broken arm]

Thats bizarre

sssssssshh!

 

[Super Dexta]

from the oed:

1. Obtained, acquired, won (chiefly with accompanying adverb). Now rare, exc. in ILL-GOTTEN.
c1340 Cursor M. 4913 (Trin.) We haue wi

vs trussed nou

t But

ing

at we truly bou

t And so is oure trewe geten

ing. c1380 WYCLIF Sel. Wks. III. 302 Sathanas..to whom

ei maken sacrifice and omage for

is falsly geten lordischip. 1477 EARL RIVERS (Caxton) Dictes 64 Pouertee is better than euyl goten richesse. 1548 HALL Chron., Edw. IV, 231 The gain of the nyne gotten battailes. 1580 SIDNEY Ps. x. iii, This gotten blisse, shall never part. 1603 KNOLLES Hist. Turks (1621) 59 Three or foure yeeres passed in great quietnesse, to the great strengthening of him in those new gotten kingdomes. 1665 MANLEY Grotius' Low C. Warres 265 They should not endanger their gotten Honour. 1715-20 POPE Iliad X. 596 Haste to the ships, the gotten spoil enjoy. 1820 CHALMERS Congreg. Serm. (1838) II. 54 He is apt to be satisfied with the triumphs of his gotten victory. 1894 GLADSTONE Horace's Odes 36 On gotten goods to live Contented.