Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hut or small cottage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small cottage; a hut.
- noun A house for the accommodation of a number of workpeople in the employment of the same person or company.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. 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.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I lived in a broken down long-deserted shepherd's hut, known as a bothy, out on a windy Scottish mountainside, without electricity.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010
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I lived in a broken down long-deserted shepherd's hut, known as a bothy, out on a windy Scottish mountainside, without electricity.
To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996
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The other was the head of the "bothy" or boarding-house for hired men,
Lady Merton, Colonist Humphry Ward 1885
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The master of a stately park in Devon, a moor and "bothy" in the highlands, a villa on the Arno, a gem of a cottage in the Isle of
A Terrible Secret May Agnes Fleming 1860
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[A bothy is a cottage or hut where labouring servants are lodged, and is sometimes built of wood, as we read in the _Jacobite Relics_, ii.
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"bothy" is frequently used in an article called "News from the Farm."
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There are three small camping areas and a private bothy, dotted in and around the orchard and the forest.
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Any word on why you think Progressive ideals are bad for the country ‘at the core’ yet, bothy?
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Meals are served either in the grand hall at the 15th-century core of the tower, in a loch-side bothy, or in an enormous tree house in the garden.
Recession? What recession? Hire a Scottish castle for £60,000 a week 2011
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Meals are served either in the grand hall at the 15th-century core of the tower, in a loch-side bothy, or in an enormous tree house in the garden.
Recession? What recession? Hire a Scottish castle for £60,000 a week 2011
bilby commented on the word bothy
"None of these would be opportunities which would be bargain basement ones, but the estate also hosts an open bothy run by the Mountain Bothies Association, where the walker can overnight at not cost at all. The maintenance of such a facility is essential, so that people are not priced out of access to places like Alladale. One problem with the bothy is that till now, fallen timber has been used for fuel."
- 'The Alladale Experiment', Ian Mitchell in The Scots Magazine, Jul 2004.
February 7, 2008