bothy

[ both-ee, baw-thee ]

/ ˈbɒθ i, ˈbɔ θi /

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noun, plural both·ies.Scot.

a hut or small cottage.

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Origin of bothy

1560–70; probably <Scots Gaelic bothan hut, with -y² replacing -an

Words nearby bothy

bother, bothered, bothersome, Bothnia, both ways, Bothwell, bothy, bothy ballad, Botkin, botnet, boto, botonée

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How to use bothy in a sentence

Here is a picture of a bothy of to-day that I visited recently.
Auld Licht Idylls|J. M. Barrie
The bothy was but scantily furnished, though it consisted of two rooms.
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Four men and a boy inhabited this bothy, and the rain had driven them all indoors.
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These were all the property of this man, however, who did the reading for the bothy.
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Broth, too, may be made in the kitchen and sent down to the bothy.
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British Dictionary definitions for bothy

bothy

/ (ˈbɒθɪ) /

noun plural bothies mainly Scot

a cottage or hut

(esp in NE Scotland) a farmworker's summer quarters

a mountain shelter

Word Origin for bothy

C18: perhaps related to booth

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