Bothy

Quick meaning: Bothy is a noun meaning A building for workers to rest in.

Meaning

A building for workers to rest in.

More Meanings

1. A small cottage or hut; specifically (Scotland), one often left unlocked for communal use in a remote, often mountainous, area by hikers, labourers, etc.
2. (agriculture, historical) A building on a farm, sometimes with just one room, for (usually unmarried male) farmworkers or other labourers to live in.

Example Sentences

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

It was easy then to meet with a man / shifting himself to a safer distance / to bed in the bothies[.]

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.

Then, in the evening of the second day after I had climbed from the pupil of the right eye, I came upon a shepherd's bothy, a sort of beehive of stone, and found in it a cooking pot and a quantity of ground corn.

Word Forms

• bothies
• bothie

Synonyms for bothy

Depending on context, synonyms include lonquhard.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beild, cleit, bole, bog-house, bigging, bivvy.

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