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bothy, bothie Sc.|ˈbɒθɪ|
Also 8 bothay.
[Of uncertain history: Irish and Gaelic have both ‘hut’ (dim. bothan), and Gael. has dim. bothag; but as the th in Gael. has been mute for many centuries, it is not easy to see how these could have given bothy. Cf. booth.]
1. A hut or cottage; spec. a building consisting of one room in which the unmarried men servants on a farm are lodged together, or in which masons, quarrymen, etc. lodge together. (Bothies of women have also been recently tried, as a substitute for the ‘Bondage’ system.)
[1570–87Holinshed Scot. Chron. (1806) I. 19 Arran otherwise called Botha after St. Brandons time who dwelled there in a little cottage which (as all other the like were in those daies) was called Botha.] 1771Pennant Tours Scotl. (1790) 124 A Sheelin or Bothay, a cottage made of turf. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. ix. (1857) 174 The sort of life that is spent in bothies and barracks. 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scot. ii. xv. 511 note, The children came..to attend school in a small bothy.
2. attrib., as in bothy-life, bothy-man, bothy-system (in reference to farm bothies).
1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. ix. 192 The influences of..the barrack, or rather bothy life. Ibid. (1858) 239 Ninety-nine out of every hundred of our bothy-men. Ibid. xi, What has since been extensively known as the bothy system.
Hence ˈbothyism, the farm-bothy system.
1864Cornh. Mag. Nov. 618 Looking only at what may be called well-regulated bothyism, it is difficult to conceive how such a system can be defended. |