bothy

• boothy, bothie

Probably from booth +‎ -y.

• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌhi/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒ.θi/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑθi/

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bothy (plural bothies)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northumbria) A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands, or as a mountain shelter. [from 18th c.]
   • 1929, Josephine Tey, "The Man in the Queue", The Macmillan Company, 1929:

     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man demanded the means of food and shelter in his retreat nowadays, and a deserted bothy or a cave on the hillside was out of date.

   • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 106:

     Often Neil sat in their bothy on winter nights and told Calum about seas he had never seen.

   • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 12:

     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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