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bothy
English
Alternative forms
- boothy
- bothie
Etymology
Probably from booth +? -y.
Pronunciation
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /?b?hi/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?.?i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b??i/
Noun
bothy (plural bothies)
- (Scotland, Ireland) A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands. [from 18th c.]
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 106:
- Often Neil sat in their bothy on winter nights and told Calum about seas he had never seen.
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 12:
- The Bog Creeper came out her wee bothy so I stood on the toilet seat and Lanna whipped her skirt down to her boots and sat.
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 106:
Derived terms
- bothy ballad
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mothy
English
Etymology
moth +? -y
Adjective
mothy (comparative mothier, superlative mothiest)
- infested with moths
- moth-eaten
Anagrams
- Y-moth, mytho-, thymo-
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