PURCHASE, PURCHASED, PURCHASER, PURCHASING
ADJECTIVES
► BOUGHTEN purchased, as opposed to homemade → 1801 Amer. dial.
► BOUGHT-MADE purchased, as opposed to homemade → 1967 Amer. dial.
► CATCHPENNY designed to attract purchasers; got up merely to sell → 1759
► RAPT snapped up by purchasers → 1567 obs.
► VENDIBLE offered for sale; that may be bought or purchased → 1552 obs.
NOUNS
► ACATE ► ACHATE buying, purchasing, purchase → c1386 obs.
► ACHATE the act of purchasing or buying; purchase; contract, bargain → c1374 obs.
► AFTER-SUM the purchase money paid after the deposit, the balance → 1638 obs.
► BUNE buying, purchase → 1175 obs.
► BUYAL the act of buying; purchase → 1612 obs.
► ERRANDS marketings, articles bought at market or from shops, purchases → 1871 Sc. & Eng., dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► ACATER ► ACATOUR ► ACHATOR ► ACHATOUR a purchaser of provisions; a purveyor; a provider or preparer of ‘cates’ or delicacies; a caterer → c1386 obs.
► HANDSEL the first money received in the day for the sale of goods; also, the first purchaser → 1569
► JOLLY a sham purchaser, who praises up inferior goods in order to facilitate their sale to an innocent buyer → L19 sl.
► MERCHANT a buyer, a purchaser, a customer → 1831 Sc.
► PUSHER a person promotes or initiates the use or purchase of something; a peddler → 1929 sl., orig. US
► TAKER-UP a purchaser or purveyor of commodities → 1603
► VENDEE the person to whom a thing is sold; the purchaser → 1547
► YAGGER a clandestine purchaser of things unfairly disposed of → Bk1905 Sc.
PHRASES
► ANY MORE FOR ANY MORE? does anyone want more food? also used to announce a final opportunity to purchase something → 1977 UK sl.
VERBS
► ABY ► ABYE to buy, to purchase, to pay for → 1175 obs.
► ACHATE to purchase, to lay in provision of → 1601 obs.
► COFF to buy, to purchase → c1425 Sc. arch.
► COP of objects: to obtain, to purchase, to acquire → M19 sl.
► COUGH to purchase, to acquire, to get → 1550 obs.
► DEAL to conclude a bargain of purchase or sale; to agree as to price → 1888 Eng. dial.
► HANDSEL to be the first purchaser → 1865 Eng. dial.
► I-BYE to purchase; to pay for, atone for → a1000 obs.
► NIBBLE to buy, to make a purchase → 1931 sl.