bothy

[ both-ee, baw-thee ]

noun

, Scot.

, plural both·ies.

1. a hut or small cottage.

bothy

/ ˈbɒθɪ /

noun

1. a cottage or hut
2. (esp in NE Scotland) a farmworker's summer quarters
3. a mountain shelter

Word History and Origins

Origin of bothy¹

1560–70; probably < Scots Gaelic bothan hut, with -y ² replacing -an

Word History and Origins

Origin of bothy¹

C18: perhaps related to booth

Example Sentences

Here is a picture of a bothy of to-day that I visited recently.

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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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