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Definition of Bothy
1. n. 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.
Definition of Bothy
1. Noun. A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas of northern Britain ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bothy
1. a hut in Scotland [n BOTHIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bothy
Literary usage of Bothy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays, Historical and Biographical, Political, Social, Literary, and Scientific by Hugh Miller (1865)
"THE bothy SYSTEM. MOST of our readers must know what the ... A wretched outhouse, —
the genuine bothy, — furnished with a few rude stools, ..."
2. An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education by Hugh Miller (1855)
"One marked effect of the annual change which the north-country mason had to
undergo, from a life of domestic comfort to alife of hardship in the bothy, ..."
3. British Farmer's Magazine (1872)
"The system in that county was to have a bothy for the unmarried servants alongside
... The wife in the house next to the bothy kept boiling water for them ..."
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