different between reward vs booty

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???w??d/, /???w??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???w??d/, /???w??d/, /?i?w??d/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???w??(?)d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English reward, rewarde, from Old French reward (“reward”) (compare Old French regard, whence modern French regard, and also English regard through Middle French), from rewarder (“to reward”) (compare Old French reguarder), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”) (compare Old French guarder); the Anglo-Norman forms are derived from Old Northern French variants of Old French, ultimately of Germanic (Frankish) origin. Compare regard, warden, guard. See more below.

Displaced native Middle English lean (“reward”), from Old English l?an (“reward”); Middle English schipe, schepe (“reward, wage”), from Old English scipe (“wages, payment, reward”). Partially displaced Middle English meed, mede (“reward, meed, recompense”), from Old English m?d (“reward, meed, recompense”).

Noun

reward (plural rewards)

1. Something of value given in return for an act.

   Synonyms: payment, recompense, tithing, meed

   Antonym: punishment

2. A prize promised for a certain deed or catch

   Synonym: bounty

3. The result of an action, whether good or bad.

   Synonym: consequence

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rewarden, from Anglo-Norman rewarder (“to reward”) (compare Old French reguarder, whence modern French regarder, also English regard through Middle French), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”), from Old Northern French [Term?], from Frankish *ward?n (“to guard, keep”), from Proto-Germanic *ward?n? (“to guard, defend”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, shelter, defend, guard, shut”). Cognate with Old Saxon ward?n (“to guard, provide for, protect”), Old English weardian (“to watch, guard, keep”), Old High German wart?n (“to watch, keep, look after”). More at ward.

Verb

reward (third-person singular simple present rewards, present participle rewarding, simple past and past participle rewarded)

2. (transitive) To give a reward to or for.

3. (transitive) To recompense.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) as a reward.
   • Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

Derived terms

• rewardable
• rewarder
• rewarding
• unrewarded

Related terms

• award

Translations

Further reading

• reward in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• reward in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Warder, drawer, redraw, warder, warred

English

Alternative forms

• bootyn (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bu?ti/
• Rhymes: -u?ti

Etymology 1

From Middle English buty, botye, bottyne, from Old French butin, botin, from Middle Low German b?te (“distribution, exchange, loot”), of obscure origin, but related to Middle High German biute, German Beute (“booty”). Possibly ultimately from Gaulish *boudi, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“profit, gains; victory”).

Noun

booty (countable and uncountable, plural booties)

1. (nautical) A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once.
2. Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:booty
3. (figuratively) Something that has been stolen or illegally obtained from elsewhere.

Related terms

• boodle

See also

• manubial

Translations

Coordinate terms

• loot

Etymology 2

Probably an alteration of botty. Possibly influenced by booty (etymology 1).

Noun

booty (plural booties)

1. (slang) The buttocks.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks
2. (vulgar, slang, not countable) A person considered as a sexual partner or sex object.
3. (vulgar, slang) sexual intercourse.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation

4. (vulgar, slang) the vulva and vagina.

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Derived terms

Etymology 3

From boot.

Noun

booty (plural booties)

1. Alternative spelling of bootee