A small cottage or hut; specifically (Scotland), one often left unlocked for communal use in a remote, often mountainous, area by hikers, labourers, etc.
But civilization had changed that completely. Not one criminal in a thousand now fled to the Highlands or to Wales for refuge. A man demanded the means of food and shelter in his retreat nowadays, and a deserted bothy or a cave on the hi…
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A building for workers to rest in.
Often Neil sat in their bothy on winter nights and told Calum about seas he had never seen.
“Put me in a bothy and throw away the key Richard Keys”
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(agriculture, historical) A building on a farm, sometimes with just one room, for (usually unmarried male) farmworkers or other labourers to live in.
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.
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