English

Alternative forms

• boothy
• bothie

Noun

bothy ‎(plural bothies)

1. (Scotland, Ireland) A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands. [from 18th c.]
   • 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 2015, p. 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.