Bothy Definition

bŏthē
bothies
noun
A cottage or hut.
Webster's New World

(Scotland) A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands. [from 18th c.]

Wiktionary

Origin of Bothy

  • Origin uncertain. Perhaps compare Scottish Gaelic bothag, diminutive of both (“hut”); but the derivation is uncertain since th has been mute in Gaelic for several centuries.

    From Wiktionary

  • Ultimately from Old Irish both hut bheuə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bothy Sentence Examples

  • Choose to stay in our bed and breakfast accommodation or our self catering bothy.

  • I remember him once singing a snatch from the bothy ballad The Dying Ploughboy.

  • We have recently started using a second bothy in the Borders for the initial bothy venture.

  • Rather strangely, this was actually the first night I'd spent where I didn't have a bothy to cook in.

  • The next morning, I awoke to glorious sunshine and left the bothy, singing an old Paul Simon song as I went.

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Words Starting With

BBOBOT

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YHYTHY

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