bothy
Americannoun
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bothies
plural
noun
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a cottage or hut
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(esp in NE Scotland) a farmworker's summer quarters
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a mountain shelter
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bothy
1560–70; probably < Scots Gaelic bothan hut, with -y 2 replacing -an
Example Sentences
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Thick mud sucked at their boots and they had a blustery night in a tent before finding shelter in a bothy the next evening.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024
The pair were walking in the Ben Macdui area, heading to Corrour bothy, when they lost one another in poor weather on Friday.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2021
Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust said the bothy, which has been used as holiday accommodation in the past, required "extensive renovations and improvement".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2021
The turn to Suileag bothy is marked by a cairn and soon comes into view.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 29, 2020
Then she secured an axe, which was lying against the bothy door, and walked with a steady and fixed purpose, never turning her head, out into the lane, through the gate and up the hill.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 by Various
And by happy coincidence it also has the highest concentration of bothies in the country.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 29, 2020
This three-day round trip takes in two beautiful bothies along the remote, uncompromising northern shore of Loch Tarbert on Jura.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 29, 2020
The MBA maintains 11 bothies across southern Scotland.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2019
A bid is being made to stamp out antisocial behaviour, vandalism and fire-raising at remote bothies in southern Scotland.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2019
Life in the bothies is not, I should say, so lonely as life at the school-house, for the hands have at least each other's company.
From Auld Licht Idyls by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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