bothy
A building for workers to rest in.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
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.
Heard in the wild
“Put me in a bothy and throw away the key Richard Keys”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
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…
Origin: Probably from . Booth is ultimately derived from , from *būaną, possibly from . The short vowel , etc., in the first instead of the long vowel in booth may be due to the influence of and , which have the same etymology as booth. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#3·Apr 27, 2026
(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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