Adjacent Words

bothy definitions

	Tweet

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Scots, probably from obsolete Scots both booth Date: 1771 chiefly Scottish hut

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also bothie) (pl. -ies) Sc. a small hut or cottage, esp. one for housing labourers. Etymology: 18th c.: orig. unkn.: perh. rel. to BOOTH

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bothy Both"yBoothy Booth"y n.; pl. -ies [Scottish. Cf. Booth.] A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]