botn.¹

Brit.

/bɒt/, U.S.

/bɑt/

Forms: late Middle English botteȝ (plural), late Middle English bottys (plural), 1500s–1700s bottes (plural), 1500s– bot, 1500s– bott, 1800s but (English regional (Cornwall)); also Scottish pre-1700 1700s– batt, pre-1700 1800s– bat.

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown.A connection with bite n. has been suggested but is unlikely on phonological grounds. With use in sense 3 in imprecations and exclamations, compare similar idioms involving pox n. (compare sense 2 at that entry).

1. Originally: a parasitic worm or maggot; spec. a larva of any of the dipteran flies of the genus Gasterophilus (family Oestridae), found infesting the gastrointestinal tract of horses. In later use also (frequently with distinguishing word): any of various other fly larvae that are endoparasites of domestic and wild animals and (less commonly) humans; any of the flies producing such larvae (= botfly n.). Also in plural (with the and singular agreement): infestation with these larvae; disease produced by or attributed to such infestation.Bots typically hatch from eggs laid on the skin of the host animal, migrate to their preferred site of development in the subcutaneous tissue or elsewhere in the body, and emerge, often through the skin, when the feeding stage of their development is complete.The disease of the gastrointestinal tract of horses caused by Gasterophilus bots is usually limited to mild inflammation.fundament bot, horse bot, red bot, sheep bot, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > parasitic

wormc1000

botc1465

canker1753

heartworm1877

strongylosis1883

surra1883

psorospermosis1894

nagana1895

tsetse-fly disease1895

babesiasis1907

babesiosis1907

strike1932

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > parasitic or harmful

flesh-wormc1000

botc1465

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > member of > larvae of

botc1465

bot-worm1746

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [noun] > other intestinal disorders

cholera1601

cœliac1661

cœliac passion or flux1662

bota1722

mucocele1897

Hirschsprung's disease1900

paraproctitis1900

peptic ulcer1900

megacolon1906

outpouching1909

typhlatony1913

polyposis1914

argentaffinoma1934

irritable bowel syndrome1943

Meckel's diverticulum1946

Meckel's diverticulitis1954

c1465 Care of Horses (Yale Beinecke 163) f. 53^v The trunchis ben smale wormys lengger the [read than] botteȝ and thei brede in the hors gutteȝ of etyng molet hey and moysted bredde.

a1475 Dis. Hawk (Harl. 2340) f. 31^v, in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) Þer is þe gorge worme, Þer is þe flyth worme Apon þe bake..Þer be þe flawndyrs, Þer ben þe bottys.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxiiii^v The bottes is an yll dysease: and they lye in a horse mawe, and they be an inch long white coloured and a reed heed, and asmoche as a fyngers ende.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 124 Many times Horses are troubled with wormes, or bots, which you shal perceiue, yf they cast their looke vpon their belly, yf they wallow oftentimes, and strike their belly with their foote.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 64 All foales naturally..are euer subiect to great aboundance, both of Maw-wormes, Grubbes, and Bots.

a1625 J. Fletcher Island Princesse iii. i. in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ooo Mine uncle haunts me up & down, looks melancholy,..sometimes sweares, Then whistles, starts, cries, & groans, as if he had the Bots.

1696 W. Hope tr. J. de Solleysel Parfait Mareschal i. clviii. 258 When Horses are taken up from the Grass, they are subject to certain smooth, or velveted Worms, about half the Bigness of Catter-pillars, which appear near the Fundament, and are usually call'd Bots.

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 465 Groundsel and savine are good against the worms, commonly called the bots in horses.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xiv. 133 A third [chapman] perceived he had a windgall, and would bid no money; a fourth knew by his eye that he had the botts.

1788 J. Clark Treat. Prevention Dis. Horses 179 A horse in this neighbourhood, who had laboured under severe griping pains for two days, (a disorder commonly, though very erroneously, termed the botts or batts in horses, although that disorder is not produced by that species of worm perhaps once in twenty or thirty cases, when they are said to be the cause).

1804 R. Forsyth Princ. & Pract. Agric. II. 106 Linnæus says that the bran of this grass [sc. flote fescue] will cure horses troubled with botts.

1836 Penny Cycl. V. 261/2 The hole made by the bot in his escape will apparently close.

1899 J. N. Baskett At You-All's House xxviii. 261 In the dusty corners of the fence, the sheep stood along the road closely huddled, with their noses to the ground to baffle the nose-bot.

1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert v. 109 Like a sheep with the botts.

1962 Metcalf & Flint's Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xx. 950 The common horse bot hovers around the animal without causing much excitement.

2005 Horse June 34/1 4 syringes of Equest, giving single dose control every 13 weeks of roundworms (including inhibited and developing encysted small redworm), plus bots.

2. figurative.

†a. A person or thing viewed as a parasite or pest; (also, in plural with the) something regarded as an infestation or disease. Obsolete except as reflected in sense 2b.

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1513 J. Skelton Ballade of Scottysshe Kynge We have well eased you of the bottes ye rowe ranke scottes and droken danes.

1606 Returne from Pernassus i. ii. sig. B3 Some of them are at this instant the bots and glanders of the printing house.

1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 72 They [sc. the Irish] are the very Offall of men,..the Bots that crawle on the Beasts taile.

1750 M. Clancy Sharper 72 You lazy Bots in warm Horse-dung.

1918 E. Pound Pavannes & Divisions 36 Mosher's propagandas That are the nation's botts, collicks and glanders.

b. slang (Australian and New Zealand). A habitual borrower or cadger; a scrounger; a person who frequently imposes on others. Cf. bot v.

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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > depending on others for support

parasite1539

useless mouth1722

bot1916

1916 All abaht It Nov. 24 Lit in time for the ‘Bot's fatigue’.

1937 L. Mann Murder in Sydney vi. 75 We're going to take a flat. We sold the town place. Too many lazy bots.

1960 J. Fingleton Four Chukkas to Austral. 63 One of..the officials was berating Pressmen..as a ‘lot of bots who wanted everything for nothing’.

1982 J. Morrison North Wind 54 Your old mates have had a win in Tatts... All the bots and bites in Victoria are on to them.

†3. In various imprecations or exclamations of irritation and impatience; frequently in a bots on ——. Cf. pox n. 2a. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] > exclamation or invocation showing

pock1573

bot1584

poxa1592

the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > imprecations

woeOE

dahetc1290

confoundc1330

foul (also shame) fall ——c1330

sorrow on——c1330

in the wanianda1352

wildfirea1375

evil theedomc1386

a pestilence on (also upon)c1390

woe betide you (also him, her, etc.)c1390

maldathaita1400

murrainc1400

out ona1415

in the wild waning worldc1485

vengeance?a1500

in a wanion1549

with a wanion1549

woe worth1553

a plague on——a1566

with a wanion to?c1570

with a wanyand1570

bot1584

maugre1590

poxa1592

death1593

rot1594

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cancro1597

pax1604

pize on (also upon)1605

vild1605

peascod1606

cargo1607

confusion1608

perditiona1616

(a) pest upon1632

deuce1651

stap my vitals1697

strike me blind, dumb, lucky (if, but—)1697

stop my vitals1699

split me (or my windpipe)1700

rabbit1701

consume1756

capot me!1760

nick me!1760

weary set1788

rats1816

bad cess to1859

curse1885

hanged1887

buggeration1964

1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London sig. A.iii^v A bottess on thy motley beard.

1592 J. Lyly Midas v. ii. sig. G2^v I lye vppon a bed of beards; a bots of their bristles, and they that owe them, they are harder than flockes.

1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe iv. sig. G2 A botts athat stincking worde odorous, I can neuer hitt on't.

1656 Acad. Pleasure ii. 86 A bots on you.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 124 Bots on them all Both great and small.

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone III. v. 84 And as for quality, and value,—bots! one inch of Ruth is worth all your seven feet put together.

a. Originally Scottish. In plural, chiefly with the. A bowel complaint; colic. Now rare.In early use related to sense 1 since botfly infestations in horses affect the gastrointestinal system. Cf. quots. a1625, 1788 at sense 1.

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1718 A. Ramsay On Lucky Wood in Elegies (ed. 2) 17 She never Ran sour Jute [= liquor], because It gee's the Batts.

1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 63 A countra Laird had ta'en the batts, Or some curmurring in his guts.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 146 The last thing ye sent Cuddie when he had the batts.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 178 Going out to work..with a full stomach, may bring on an attack of batts or colic.

1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xx. 193 First-off, I thought it would certainly give me the botts.

a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (2010) I. 162 The baby had the botts, or something.

1939 Washington Post 8 Apr. 13/1 The little woman..laid out with a severe attack of the botts.

b. New Zealand colloquial. In singular, chiefly with the. Originally: a germ. In later use: a minor illness; a cold, etc.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun]

soreOE

cothec1000

sicknessc1000

evilc1275

maladyc1275

grievance1377

passiona1382

infirmityc1384

mischiefa1387

affectiona1398

grievinga1398

grief1398

sicka1400

case?a1425

plaguec1425

diseasea1475

alteration1533

craze1534

uncome1538

impediment1542

affliction?1555

ailment1606

disaster1614

garget1615

morbus1630

ail1648

disaffect1683

disorder1690

illness1692

trouble1726

complaint1727

skookum1838

claim1898

itis1909

bug1918

wog1925

crud1932

bot1937

lurgy1947

Korean haemorrhagic fever1951

nadger1956

the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > [noun]

microphyte1859

microzoon1859

microzoary1863

mycetes1874

spore1876

microbe1880

microorganism1880

microzooid1881

microbion1883

bug1885

macrospore1888

microzoan1890

microzoarian1890

zymophyte1890

germ1897

bot1937

probiotic1974

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 83/1 Bot,..a germ.: New Zealand medical: from ca. 1928.

1968 G. Slatter Pagan Game 144 And if you have a good rub down and wrap up warm after, nobody will catch the bot.

1987 M. Gee Prowlers 45 How are you mate? Off colour, eh? Got the bot?

2007 M. Shaw in Trav. Med. xiv. 114 All went as expected.., except for one day where I got the ‘bot’ and found myself abed being cared for by the crew.

Phrases

colloquial (New Zealand and Australian). how are the bots biting?: (as a greeting) ‘How are you?’ ‘How's it going?’Cf. sense 4b.

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1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 83/2 Bots biting?, how are the, how are you?: New Zealand medical: from ca. 1929.

1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 52 The phrase of greeting, How are the bots biting?

1995 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Feb. (Weekend Suppl.) 67 G'day. Or should that be ‘How ya goin' mate?’ Or, perhaps, ‘How are the bots biting?’

Compounds

† bot-bee n. U.S. Obsolete = botfly n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > member of

breezea800

gad-bee1510

gadfly1569

gad-breeze1665

garabee1692

grey fly1752

trumpet-fly1752

botfly?a1775

bot-bee1825

1825 New Eng. Farmer 8 July 398/2 Prevention..is done by scraping, with a sharp knife, the eggs of the bot-bee from every part of the horse every few days.

1852 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New Eng. (ed. 2) 499 The various insects, improperly called bot-bees, are two-winged flies.

1904 Breeder's Gaz. 20 Jan. 126/4 A four-year-old mare will throw her head, dodge and strike occasionally just as a horse does when bothered by bot-bees.

† bot hole n. Obsolete a hole in an animal hide resulting from the emergence of a bot.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > hole in hide

bot hole1797

1797 Trans. Linn. Soc. 3 297 Their best and strongest hides have the greatest number of bot-holes in them.

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. v. 150 The tanners also prefer those hides that have the greatest number of bot-holes in them, which are always the best and strongest.

1910 Ann. Rep. New Jersey State Mus. 1909 i. iv. 32 Every farmer that ever sold a hide knows that bot holes lessen its value.

† bot-worm n. Obsolete a larva of a botfly (= sense 1); (in quot. 1801) the fly itself.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > member of > larvae of

botc1465

bot-worm1746

1746 T. Short Medicina Britannica 129 Groundsel..is also good for the Staggers, and Bot-worms.

1801 Trans. Soc. Promotion Agric., Arts & Manuf. (U.S.) (ed. 2) 1 393 I examined them [sc. three flies] and perceived that they bore some resemblance to the bot-worm, particularly about the head.

1877 Rep. Vermont Dairymen's Assoc. 8 105 Grub-in-the-head is a bot-worm,..cousin to the bots in horses.

1915 St. Nicholas June 721/1 A tick..killed one of the brood while they were yet small, and an equally ugly worm called a bot-worm caused the death of another.

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† botn.²

Forms: pre-1700 boit, pre-1700 boitt, pre-1700 bot, pre-1700 bott.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bolt n.¹

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps (i) a variant of bolt n.¹, showing assimilation of -l- , or perhaps (ii) a specific sense development of bat n.² (compare variants in -o- at that entry).

Scottish. Obsolete.

A bolt.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > roll > of specific size

bot1491

shock1612

1491 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 184 For a bot of irne, and leyd, and til a masson to mak a hoylle and put the bot in..vij d.

1535–6 in J. Ferguson Linlithgow Palace (1910) 323 For iii^xxxviii bottis to the trest feit of the gret hall.

1554–5 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 360 To ane masoun for wourking of the bott hollis.

1582 Edinb. Dean of Guild Accts. 126 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Bot Ane ke with ane irin boit to the duiris.

1627 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 415 For tua staippillis and tua bottis of ierne and for ane poind of leid.

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botn.³

Brit.

/bɒt/, U.S.

/bɑt/

Forms: 1700s– bot. (with point), 1800s– bot, 1800s– bott, 1800s– bott. (with point).

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: bottle n.²

Etymology: Shortened < bottle n.³ (originally as a graphic abbreviation).

colloquial.

= bottle n.³

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > flask, flagon, or bottle > [noun] > bottle

bottlec1340

bot1736

1736 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 572/2 Q. Bot. of Brandy... Gallon ditto, in Cask.

1833 Lord Eldin's Wines. 5 2 doz. Madeira... 4 bots. d[itt]o.

1895 W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 63 ‘A bird and a small bot.’ A bottle of beer..with a light lunch.

1925 Times 16 Apr. 15 (advt.) White French wine..Dozen bottles 29/6..half-botts 16/6.

1973 P. Larkin Let. 14 Jan. in Lett. Monica (2010) 440 Later in the day—pissed as all get-out: ½ bott. sherry & ¾ bott of white wine.

2003 Spectator (Nexis) 13 Dec. 30 A spot of Stilton and a few bots of Reserva.

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botn.⁴

Brit.

/bɒt/, U.S.

/bɑt/

Forms: 1900s– bot, 1900s– bott.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: bottom n.

Etymology: Shortened < bottom n. Compare earlier botty n.

colloquial (chiefly British and Irish English).

The bottom, the buttocks.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun]

flitcha700

arse-endseOE

culec1220

buttockc1300

tail1303

toutec1305

nagea1325

fundamentc1325

tail-end1377

brawna1382

buma1387

bewschers?a1400

crouponc1400

rumplec1430

lendc1440

nachec1440

luddocka1475

rearwarda1475

croupc1475

rumpc1475

dock1508

hurdies1535

bunc1538

sitting place1545

bottom?c1550

prat1567

nates1581

backside1593

crupper1594

posteriorums1596

catastrophe1600

podex1601

posterior1605

seat1607

poop1611

stern1631

cheek1639

breeka1642

doup1653

bumkin1658

bumfiddle1661

assa1672

butt1675

quarter1678

foundation1681

toby1681

bung1691

rear1716

fud1722

moon1756

derrière1774

rass1790

stern-post1810

sit-down1812

hinderland1817

hinderling1817

nancy1819

ultimatum1823

behinda1830

duff?1837

botty1842

rear end1851

latter end1852

hinder?1857

sit1862

sit-me-down1866

stern-works1879

tuchus1886

jacksy-pardy1891

sit-upon1910

can1913

truck-end1913

sitzfleisch1916

B.T.M.1919

fanny1919

bot1922

heinie1922

beam1929

yas yas1929

keister1931

batty1935

bim1935

arse-end1937

twat1937

okole1938

bahookie1939

bohunkus1941

quoit1941

patoot1942

rusty-dusty1942

dinger1943

jacksie1943

zatch1950

ding1957

booty1959

patootie1959

buns1960

wazoo1961

tush1962

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 505 Spank your bare bot right well, miss, with the hairbrush.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xiii. 301 A kick up the bot for being a clot.

1982 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 2nd Ser. Christmas Special 128 [Del.] Good evening! Heather. Oh hello! Del. Do you mind if I park me bott?

1991 Sun 15 Mar. 17/6 Val Kilmer has bottled out of showing his bot in his latest film.

2010 People (Nexis) 25 July (News section) 27 She's certainly got a bootiful bot.

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botn.⁵

Brit.

/bɒt/, U.S.

/bɑt/

Forms: 1900s– 'bot (rare), 1900s– bot.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: robot n.²

Etymology: Shortened < robot n.² Compare slightly earlier -bot comb. form.

1. Originally Science Fiction. A robot.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > automatic > automaton or robot

self-mover1570

self-moving1570

automa1631

automatea1649

android1728

golem1732

automaton1922

robot1927

mechanoid1947

robotic1951

droid1952

bot1969

mecha1986

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > science fiction, etc. > [noun] > character in

Alpha Centaurian1931

centaurian1931

slan1940

robot1942

droid1952

bot1969

fembot1976

1969 R. C. Meredith in Amazing Stories Jan. 130/2 When they got my ship the only part of me that the 'bots were able to get into cold-sleep was my head, shoulders and a part of my spine.

1977 G. Benford in Cosmos Sci. Fiction & Fantasy Mag. May 25/1 ‘What's your name, little bot?’ The robot squats mutely. ‘Bot?’ Gerald asks. ‘Slang for robot. You ask him.’

1992 L. Niven & S. Barnes Calif. Voodoo Game 252 We have maintenance 'bots in there.

2001 Time 19 Nov. 87 This Pentium-powered bot uses sonar sensors to keep her from bumping into walls..as she rolls along.

2. Computing. An automated program on a network (esp. the internet), often having features that mimic human reasoning and decision-making; spec. (a) a program designed to respond or behave like a human (in games, chat rooms, etc.); (b) a software agent (see agent n.¹ 5).

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1990 Bot-haters Unite! in alt.mud (Usenet newsgroup) 23 Jan. The following consists of a general flame against bots.

1996 PC Week (Nexis) 23 Dec. 61 Servers can detect the use of read-ahead utilities as they do search engines and other bots.

2001 Newsweek 20 Aug. 52/1 Script kiddies are the ones most likely to scan your home PC using automated bots.

2014 MailOnline (Nexis) 12 Aug. Twitter now has more than 270 million users... Approximately 23 million are said to be bots.

Compounds

botmaster n. a person who controls a bot (sense 2); a person who controls a botnet (in later use usually with reference to botnet n. (b)).

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1995 WOTP Warning to all Bird Punners in rec.arts.tv.mst3k (Usenet newsgroup) 3 Feb. We also don't like big ASCII pictures, long-ass quotes,..and the botmaster gets on our nerves, too.

2003 D. Chappelle Protect Yourself Online xi. 77 Stop bots by not using Instant Messaging and P2P..communications like Internet Relay Chat. That's how bots spread to other systems and communicate with the botmaster.

2014 B. Krebs Spam Nation vii. 152 Few botmasters were as angry and as vindictive as ‘Engel’.

bot herder n. a person who controls a botnet (botnet n. (b)).

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2005 New Yorker 10 Oct. 48/1 Logging on as ‘hardcore’, Turner pretended to be a bot herder who had been out of the game for a while.

2015 P. Franco Understanding Bitcoin ix. 145 It is more economical for a bot-herder to use her botnet for other nefarious purposes..than to use it for Bitcoin mining.

botnet n. Computing (a) a network or collection of bots (sense 2) in Internet Relay Chat; (b) a network of computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owners' knowledge, typically used to send spam, perform distributed denial of service attacks, etc.; cf. zombie n. 7.

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1994 Re: The No Lag + No Split Alternative in alt.irc (Usenet newsgroup) 18 Dec. There are many files available from the bots on the botnet which can be reached even if the bot is on another network.

2004 Independent (Nexis) 3 Nov. 11 The development of a vast ‘bot net’ of PCs used to send out spam unknown to their users.

2010 PC Pro Sept. 130/2 The average price for renting out a botnet for 24 hours was just £44.85, during which time numerous attack vectors could be exploited.

2012 Independent 20 July 8/5 A spam botnet responsible for an estimated 18 billion messages a day has been closed down by security researchers.

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botv.

Brit.

/bɒt/, U.S.

/bɑt/, Australian English

/bɔt/, New Zealand English

/bɒt/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: bot n.¹

Etymology: < bot n.¹ (compare sense 2b at that entry).

slang (Australian and New Zealand).

1. transitive. To borrow or cadge (something).

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the mind > possession > taking > borrowing > borrow [verb (transitive)]

apprompt1548

mutuate1548

prest1548

to take out1753

promote1918

nip1919

bot1921

rabbit1943

borrow-

1921 F. Grose Rough Y.M. Bloke v. 73 I had firmly made up my mind that the boys were not going to be disappointed, and I eventually ‘botted’..a lorry.

1939 Daily News (Perth, Austral.) 18 July 6 I wouldn't bot a drink from no one.

1975 J. Larkins & B. Howard Great Austral. Bk. Nostalgia 25/2 A mutton bone or two botted from a local housewife or pub.

1994 J. Marsden Dead of Night xiii. 193 He was obviously trying to bot a cigarette.

2. intransitive. To borrow or cadge things from others, esp. habitually. Frequently in to bot on: to impose on or take advantage of, esp. financially.

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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (intransitive)]

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strike1618

to break shins1699

to raise the wind1722

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1930 Mirror (Perth, Austral.) 26 July 16 So many people are ‘botting’ on the various unemployment funds that it's a treat to hear of the experience of a South Perth collector.

1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Nov. 46/2 Settle up when I sell me next picture... Never did like botting on a bloke.

1965 K. Tennant Summer's Tales 82 They'll bot on property owners or missions. That's where they're going.

1996 New Yorker 27 May 32/3 A bunch of whining left-wing layabouts trying to bot off the public purse.

1998 S. Maloney Nice Try 51 A four-a-day smoker does not stand in a draughty vestibule, tossing off a quick puff. Botting from strangers.

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ˈbotting n. rare

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shinning1834

botting1937

1937 L. Mann Murder in Sydney ix. 110 I didn't know how I was going to get enough to eat without botting.

1943 Mirror (Perth, Austral.) 11 Sept. 6 (headline) Month for ‘botting’.

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单词	bot
释义	botn.¹ Brit. /bɒt/, U.S. /bɑt/ Forms: late Middle English botteȝ (plural), late Middle English bottys (plural), 1500s–1700s bottes (plural), 1500s– bot, 1500s– bott, 1800s but (English regional (Cornwall)); also Scottish pre-1700 1700s– batt, pre-1700 1800s– bat. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown.A connection with bite n. has been suggested but is unlikely on phonological grounds. With use in sense 3 in imprecations and exclamations, compare similar idioms involving pox n. (compare sense 2 at that entry). 1. Originally: a parasitic worm or maggot; spec. a larva of any of the dipteran flies of the genus Gasterophilus (family Oestridae), found infesting the gastrointestinal tract of horses. In later use also (frequently with distinguishing word): any of various other fly larvae that are endoparasites of domestic and wild animals and (less commonly) humans; any of the flies producing such larvae (= botfly n.). Also in plural (with the and singular agreement): infestation with these larvae; disease produced by or attributed to such infestation.Bots typically hatch from eggs laid on the skin of the host animal, migrate to their preferred site of development in the subcutaneous tissue or elsewhere in the body, and emerge, often through the skin, when the feeding stage of their development is complete.The disease of the gastrointestinal tract of horses caused by Gasterophilus bots is usually limited to mild inflammation.fundament bot, horse bot, red bot, sheep bot, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > parasitic wormc1000 botc1465 canker1753 heartworm1877 strongylosis1883 surra1883 psorospermosis1894 nagana1895 tsetse-fly disease1895 babesiasis1907 babesiosis1907 strike1932 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > parasitic or harmful flesh-wormc1000 botc1465 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > member of > larvae of botc1465 bot-worm1746 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [noun] > other intestinal disorders cholera1601 cœliac1661 cœliac passion or flux1662 bota1722 mucocele1897 Hirschsprung's disease1900 paraproctitis1900 peptic ulcer1900 megacolon1906 outpouching1909 typhlatony1913 polyposis1914 argentaffinoma1934 irritable bowel syndrome1943 Meckel's diverticulum1946 Meckel's diverticulitis1954 c1465 Care of Horses (Yale Beinecke 163) f. 53^v The trunchis ben smale wormys lengger the [read than] botteȝ and thei brede in the hors gutteȝ of etyng molet hey and moysted bredde. a1475 Dis. Hawk (Harl. 2340) f. 31^v, in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) Þer is þe gorge worme, Þer is þe flyth worme Apon þe bake..Þer be þe flawndyrs, Þer ben þe bottys. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxiiii^v The bottes is an yll dysease: and they lye in a horse mawe, and they be an inch long white coloured and a reed heed, and asmoche as a fyngers ende. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 124 Many times Horses are troubled with wormes, or bots, which you shal perceiue, yf they cast their looke vpon their belly, yf they wallow oftentimes, and strike their belly with their foote. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 64 All foales naturally..are euer subiect to great aboundance, both of Maw-wormes, Grubbes, and Bots. a1625 J. Fletcher Island Princesse iii. i. in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ooo Mine uncle haunts me up & down, looks melancholy,..sometimes sweares, Then whistles, starts, cries, & groans, as if he had the Bots. 1696 W. Hope tr. J. de Solleysel Parfait Mareschal i. clviii. 258 When Horses are taken up from the Grass, they are subject to certain smooth, or velveted Worms, about half the Bigness of Catter-pillars, which appear near the Fundament, and are usually call'd Bots. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 465 Groundsel and savine are good against the worms, commonly called the bots in horses. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xiv. 133 A third [chapman] perceived he had a windgall, and would bid no money; a fourth knew by his eye that he had the botts. 1788 J. Clark Treat. Prevention Dis. Horses 179 A horse in this neighbourhood, who had laboured under severe griping pains for two days, (a disorder commonly, though very erroneously, termed the botts or batts in horses, although that disorder is not produced by that species of worm perhaps once in twenty or thirty cases, when they are said to be the cause). 1804 R. Forsyth Princ. & Pract. Agric. II. 106 Linnæus says that the bran of this grass [sc. flote fescue] will cure horses troubled with botts. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 261/2 The hole made by the bot in his escape will apparently close. 1899 J. N. Baskett At You-All's House xxviii. 261 In the dusty corners of the fence, the sheep stood along the road closely huddled, with their noses to the ground to baffle the nose-bot. 1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert v. 109 Like a sheep with the botts. 1962 Metcalf & Flint's Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 4) xx. 950 The common horse bot hovers around the animal without causing much excitement. 2005 Horse June 34/1 4 syringes of Equest, giving single dose control every 13 weeks of roundworms (including inhibited and developing encysted small redworm), plus bots. 2. figurative. †a. A person or thing viewed as a parasite or pest; (also, in plural with the) something regarded as an infestation or disease. Obsolete except as reflected in sense 2b. ΚΠ 1513 J. Skelton Ballade of Scottysshe Kynge We have well eased you of the bottes ye rowe ranke scottes and droken danes. 1606 Returne from Pernassus i. ii. sig. B3 Some of them are at this instant the bots and glanders of the printing house. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 72 They [sc. the Irish] are the very Offall of men,..the Bots that crawle on the Beasts taile. 1750 M. Clancy Sharper 72 You lazy Bots in warm Horse-dung. 1918 E. Pound Pavannes & Divisions 36 Mosher's propagandas That are the nation's botts, collicks and glanders. b. slang (Australian and New Zealand). A habitual borrower or cadger; a scrounger; a person who frequently imposes on others. Cf. bot v. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person > depending on others for support parasite1539 useless mouth1722 bot1916 1916 All abaht It Nov. 24 Lit in time for the ‘Bot's fatigue’. 1937 L. Mann Murder in Sydney vi. 75 We're going to take a flat. We sold the town place. Too many lazy bots. 1960 J. Fingleton Four Chukkas to Austral. 63 One of..the officials was berating Pressmen..as a ‘lot of bots who wanted everything for nothing’. 1982 J. Morrison North Wind 54 Your old mates have had a win in Tatts... All the bots and bites in Victoria are on to them. †3. In various imprecations or exclamations of irritation and impatience; frequently in a bots on ——. Cf. pox n. 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] > exclamation or invocation showing pock1573 bot1584 poxa1592 the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > imprecations woeOE dahetc1290 confoundc1330 foul (also shame) fall ——c1330 sorrow on——c1330 in the wanianda1352 wildfirea1375 evil theedomc1386 a pestilence on (also upon)c1390 woe betide you (also him, her, etc.)c1390 maldathaita1400 murrainc1400 out ona1415 in the wild waning worldc1485 vengeance?a1500 in a wanion1549 with a wanion1549 woe worth1553 a plague on——a1566 with a wanion to?c1570 with a wanyand1570 bot1584 maugre1590 poxa1592 death1593 rot1594 rot on1595 cancro1597 pax1604 pize on (also upon)1605 vild1605 peascod1606 cargo1607 confusion1608 perditiona1616 (a) pest upon1632 deuce1651 stap my vitals1697 strike me blind, dumb, lucky (if, but—)1697 stop my vitals1699 split me (or my windpipe)1700 rabbit1701 consume1756 capot me!1760 nick me!1760 weary set1788 rats1816 bad cess to1859 curse1885 hanged1887 buggeration1964 1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London sig. A.iii^v A bottess on thy motley beard. 1592 J. Lyly Midas v. ii. sig. G2^v I lye vppon a bed of beards; a bots of their bristles, and they that owe them, they are harder than flockes. 1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe iv. sig. G2 A botts athat stincking worde odorous, I can neuer hitt on't. 1656 Acad. Pleasure ii. 86 A bots on you. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 124 Bots on them all Both great and small. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone III. v. 84 And as for quality, and value,—bots! one inch of Ruth is worth all your seven feet put together. 4. a. Originally Scottish. In plural, chiefly with the. A bowel complaint; colic. Now rare.In early use related to sense 1 since botfly infestations in horses affect the gastrointestinal system. Cf. quots. a1625, 1788 at sense 1. ΚΠ 1718 A. Ramsay On Lucky Wood in Elegies (ed. 2) 17 She never Ran sour Jute [= liquor], because It gee's the Batts. 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 63 A countra Laird had ta'en the batts, Or some curmurring in his guts. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 146 The last thing ye sent Cuddie when he had the batts. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 178 Going out to work..with a full stomach, may bring on an attack of batts or colic. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xx. 193 First-off, I thought it would certainly give me the botts. a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (2010) I. 162 The baby had the botts, or something. 1939 Washington Post 8 Apr. 13/1 The little woman..laid out with a severe attack of the botts. b. New Zealand colloquial. In singular, chiefly with the. Originally: a germ. In later use: a minor illness; a cold, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] soreOE cothec1000 sicknessc1000 evilc1275 maladyc1275 grievance1377 passiona1382 infirmityc1384 mischiefa1387 affectiona1398 grievinga1398 grief1398 sicka1400 case?a1425 plaguec1425 diseasea1475 alteration1533 craze1534 uncome1538 impediment1542 affliction?1555 ailment1606 disaster1614 garget1615 morbus1630 ail1648 disaffect1683 disorder1690 illness1692 trouble1726 complaint1727 skookum1838 claim1898 itis1909 bug1918 wog1925 crud1932 bot1937 lurgy1947 Korean haemorrhagic fever1951 nadger1956 the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > [noun] microphyte1859 microzoon1859 microzoary1863 mycetes1874 spore1876 microbe1880 microorganism1880 microzooid1881 microbion1883 bug1885 macrospore1888 microzoan1890 microzoarian1890 zymophyte1890 germ1897 bot1937 probiotic1974 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 83/1 Bot,..a germ.: New Zealand medical: from ca. 1928. 1968 G. Slatter Pagan Game 144 And if you have a good rub down and wrap up warm after, nobody will catch the bot. 1987 M. Gee Prowlers 45 How are you mate? Off colour, eh? Got the bot? 2007 M. Shaw in Trav. Med. xiv. 114 All went as expected.., except for one day where I got the ‘bot’ and found myself abed being cared for by the crew. Phrases colloquial (New Zealand and Australian). how are the bots biting?: (as a greeting) ‘How are you?’ ‘How's it going?’Cf. sense 4b. ΚΠ 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 83/2 Bots biting?, how are the, how are you?: New Zealand medical: from ca. 1929. 1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 52 The phrase of greeting, How are the bots biting? 1995 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Feb. (Weekend Suppl.) 67 G'day. Or should that be ‘How ya goin' mate?’ Or, perhaps, ‘How are the bots biting?’ Compounds † bot-bee n. U.S. Obsolete = botfly n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > member of breezea800 gad-bee1510 gadfly1569 gad-breeze1665 garabee1692 grey fly1752 trumpet-fly1752 botfly?a1775 bot-bee1825 1825 New Eng. Farmer 8 July 398/2 Prevention..is done by scraping, with a sharp knife, the eggs of the bot-bee from every part of the horse every few days. 1852 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New Eng. (ed. 2) 499 The various insects, improperly called bot-bees, are two-winged flies. 1904 Breeder's Gaz. 20 Jan. 126/4 A four-year-old mare will throw her head, dodge and strike occasionally just as a horse does when bothered by bot-bees. † bot hole n. Obsolete a hole in an animal hide resulting from the emergence of a bot. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > hole in hide bot hole1797 1797 Trans. Linn. Soc. 3 297 Their best and strongest hides have the greatest number of bot-holes in them. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. v. 150 The tanners also prefer those hides that have the greatest number of bot-holes in them, which are always the best and strongest. 1910 Ann. Rep. New Jersey State Mus. 1909 i. iv. 32 Every farmer that ever sold a hide knows that bot holes lessen its value. † bot-worm n. Obsolete a larva of a botfly (= sense 1); (in quot. 1801) the fly itself. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > member of > larvae of botc1465 bot-worm1746 1746 T. Short Medicina Britannica 129 Groundsel..is also good for the Staggers, and Bot-worms. 1801 Trans. Soc. Promotion Agric., Arts & Manuf. (U.S.) (ed. 2) 1 393 I examined them [sc. three flies] and perceived that they bore some resemblance to the bot-worm, particularly about the head. 1877 Rep. Vermont Dairymen's Assoc. 8 105 Grub-in-the-head is a bot-worm,..cousin to the bots in horses. 1915 St. Nicholas June 721/1 A tick..killed one of the brood while they were yet small, and an equally ugly worm called a bot-worm caused the death of another. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † botn.² Forms: pre-1700 boit, pre-1700 boitt, pre-1700 bot, pre-1700 bott. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bolt n.¹ Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps (i) a variant of bolt n.¹, showing assimilation of -l- , or perhaps (ii) a specific sense development of bat n.² (compare variants in -o- at that entry). Scottish. Obsolete. A bolt. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > roll > of specific size bot1491 shock1612 1491 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 184 For a bot of irne, and leyd, and til a masson to mak a hoylle and put the bot in..vij d. 1535–6 in J. Ferguson Linlithgow Palace (1910) 323 For iii^xxxviii bottis to the trest feit of the gret hall. 1554–5 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 360 To ane masoun for wourking of the bott hollis. 1582 Edinb. Dean of Guild Accts. 126 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Bot Ane ke with ane irin boit to the duiris. 1627 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 415 For tua staippillis and tua bottis of ierne and for ane poind of leid. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2020). botn.³ Brit. /bɒt/, U.S. /bɑt/ Forms: 1700s– bot. (with point), 1800s– bot, 1800s– bott, 1800s– bott. (with point). Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: bottle n.² Etymology: Shortened < bottle n.³ (originally as a graphic abbreviation). colloquial. = bottle n.³ ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > flask, flagon, or bottle > [noun] > bottle bottlec1340 bot1736 1736 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 572/2 Q. Bot. of Brandy... Gallon ditto, in Cask. 1833 Lord Eldin's Wines. 5 2 doz. Madeira... 4 bots. d[itt]o. 1895 W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 63 ‘A bird and a small bot.’ A bottle of beer..with a light lunch. 1925 Times 16 Apr. 15 (advt.) White French wine..Dozen bottles 29/6..half-botts 16/6. 1973 P. Larkin Let. 14 Jan. in Lett. Monica (2010) 440 Later in the day—pissed as all get-out: ½ bott. sherry & ¾ bott of white wine. 2003 Spectator (Nexis) 13 Dec. 30 A spot of Stilton and a few bots of Reserva. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). botn.⁴ Brit. /bɒt/, U.S. /bɑt/ Forms: 1900s– bot, 1900s– bott. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: bottom n. Etymology: Shortened < bottom n. Compare earlier botty n. colloquial (chiefly British and Irish English). The bottom, the buttocks. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun] flitcha700 arse-endseOE culec1220 buttockc1300 tail1303 toutec1305 nagea1325 fundamentc1325 tail-end1377 brawna1382 buma1387 bewschers?a1400 crouponc1400 rumplec1430 lendc1440 nachec1440 luddocka1475 rearwarda1475 croupc1475 rumpc1475 dock1508 hurdies1535 bunc1538 sitting place1545 bottom?c1550 prat1567 nates1581 backside1593 crupper1594 posteriorums1596 catastrophe1600 podex1601 posterior1605 seat1607 poop1611 stern1631 cheek1639 breeka1642 doup1653 bumkin1658 bumfiddle1661 assa1672 butt1675 quarter1678 foundation1681 toby1681 bung1691 rear1716 fud1722 moon1756 derrière1774 rass1790 stern-post1810 sit-down1812 hinderland1817 hinderling1817 nancy1819 ultimatum1823 behinda1830 duff?1837 botty1842 rear end1851 latter end1852 hinder?1857 sit1862 sit-me-down1866 stern-works1879 tuchus1886 jacksy-pardy1891 sit-upon1910 can1913 truck-end1913 sitzfleisch1916 B.T.M.1919 fanny1919 bot1922 heinie1922 beam1929 yas yas1929 keister1931 batty1935 bim1935 arse-end1937 twat1937 okole1938 bahookie1939 bohunkus1941 quoit1941 patoot1942 rusty-dusty1942 dinger1943 jacksie1943 zatch1950 ding1957 booty1959 patootie1959 buns1960 wazoo1961 tush1962 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 505 Spank your bare bot right well, miss, with the hairbrush. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xiii. 301 A kick up the bot for being a clot. 1982 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 2nd Ser. Christmas Special 128 [Del.] Good evening! Heather. Oh hello! Del. Do you mind if I park me bott? 1991 Sun 15 Mar. 17/6 Val Kilmer has bottled out of showing his bot in his latest film. 2010 People (Nexis) 25 July (News section) 27 She's certainly got a bootiful bot. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). botn.⁵ Brit. /bɒt/, U.S. /bɑt/ Forms: 1900s– 'bot (rare), 1900s– bot. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: robot n.² Etymology: Shortened < robot n.² Compare slightly earlier -bot comb. form. 1. Originally Science Fiction. A robot. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > automatic > automaton or robot self-mover1570 self-moving1570 automa1631 automatea1649 android1728 golem1732 automaton1922 robot1927 mechanoid1947 robotic1951 droid1952 bot1969 mecha1986 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > science fiction, etc. > [noun] > character in Alpha Centaurian1931 centaurian1931 slan1940 robot1942 droid1952 bot1969 fembot1976 1969 R. C. Meredith in Amazing Stories Jan. 130/2 When they got my ship the only part of me that the 'bots were able to get into cold-sleep was my head, shoulders and a part of my spine. 1977 G. Benford in Cosmos Sci. Fiction & Fantasy Mag. May 25/1 ‘What's your name, little bot?’ The robot squats mutely. ‘Bot?’ Gerald asks. ‘Slang for robot. You ask him.’ 1992 L. Niven & S. Barnes Calif. Voodoo Game 252 We have maintenance 'bots in there. 2001 Time 19 Nov. 87 This Pentium-powered bot uses sonar sensors to keep her from bumping into walls..as she rolls along. 2. Computing. An automated program on a network (esp. the internet), often having features that mimic human reasoning and decision-making; spec. (a) a program designed to respond or behave like a human (in games, chat rooms, etc.); (b) a software agent (see agent n.¹ 5). ΚΠ 1990 Bot-haters Unite! in alt.mud (Usenet newsgroup) 23 Jan. The following consists of a general flame against bots. 1996 PC Week (Nexis) 23 Dec. 61 Servers can detect the use of read-ahead utilities as they do search engines and other bots. 2001 Newsweek 20 Aug. 52/1 Script kiddies are the ones most likely to scan your home PC using automated bots. 2014 MailOnline (Nexis) 12 Aug. Twitter now has more than 270 million users... Approximately 23 million are said to be bots. Compounds botmaster n. a person who controls a bot (sense 2); a person who controls a botnet (in later use usually with reference to botnet n. (b)). ΚΠ 1995 WOTP Warning to all Bird Punners in rec.arts.tv.mst3k (Usenet newsgroup) 3 Feb. We also don't like big ASCII pictures, long-ass quotes,..and the botmaster gets on our nerves, too. 2003 D. Chappelle Protect Yourself Online xi. 77 Stop bots by not using Instant Messaging and P2P..communications like Internet Relay Chat. That's how bots spread to other systems and communicate with the botmaster. 2014 B. Krebs Spam Nation vii. 152 Few botmasters were as angry and as vindictive as ‘Engel’. bot herder n. a person who controls a botnet (botnet n. (b)). ΚΠ 2005 New Yorker 10 Oct. 48/1 Logging on as ‘hardcore’, Turner pretended to be a bot herder who had been out of the game for a while. 2015 P. Franco Understanding Bitcoin ix. 145 It is more economical for a bot-herder to use her botnet for other nefarious purposes..than to use it for Bitcoin mining. botnet n. Computing (a) a network or collection of bots (sense 2) in Internet Relay Chat; (b) a network of computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owners' knowledge, typically used to send spam, perform distributed denial of service attacks, etc.; cf. zombie n. 7. ΚΠ 1994 Re: The No Lag + No Split Alternative in alt.irc (Usenet newsgroup) 18 Dec. There are many files available from the bots on the botnet which can be reached even if the bot is on another network. 2004 Independent (Nexis) 3 Nov. 11 The development of a vast ‘bot net’ of PCs used to send out spam unknown to their users. 2010 PC Pro Sept. 130/2 The average price for renting out a botnet for 24 hours was just £44.85, during which time numerous attack vectors could be exploited. 2012 Independent 20 July 8/5 A spam botnet responsible for an estimated 18 billion messages a day has been closed down by security researchers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). botv. Brit. /bɒt/, U.S. /bɑt/, Australian English /bɔt/, New Zealand English /bɒt/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: bot n.¹ Etymology: < bot n.¹ (compare sense 2b at that entry). slang (Australian and New Zealand). 1. transitive. To borrow or cadge (something). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > borrowing > borrow [verb (transitive)] apprompt1548 mutuate1548 prest1548 to take out1753 promote1918 nip1919 bot1921 rabbit1943 borrow- 1921 F. Grose Rough Y.M. Bloke v. 73 I had firmly made up my mind that the boys were not going to be disappointed, and I eventually ‘botted’..a lorry. 1939 Daily News (Perth, Austral.) 18 July 6 I wouldn't bot a drink from no one. 1975 J. Larkins & B. Howard Great Austral. Bk. Nostalgia 25/2 A mutton bone or two botted from a local housewife or pub. 1994 J. Marsden Dead of Night xiii. 193 He was obviously trying to bot a cigarette. 2. intransitive. To borrow or cadge things from others, esp. habitually. Frequently in to bot on: to impose on or take advantage of, esp. financially. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (intransitive)] borrowa1000 strike1618 to break shins1699 to raise the wind1722 shin1855 bot1930 1930 Mirror (Perth, Austral.) 26 July 16 So many people are ‘botting’ on the various unemployment funds that it's a treat to hear of the experience of a South Perth collector. 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Nov. 46/2 Settle up when I sell me next picture... Never did like botting on a bloke. 1965 K. Tennant Summer's Tales 82 They'll bot on property owners or missions. That's where they're going. 1996 New Yorker 27 May 32/3 A bunch of whining left-wing layabouts trying to bot off the public purse. 1998 S. Maloney Nice Try 51 A four-a-day smoker does not stand in a draughty vestibule, tossing off a quick puff. Botting from strangers. Derivatives ˈbotting n. rare ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] borrowing1545 shinning1834 botting1937 1937 L. Mann Murder in Sydney ix. 110 I didn't know how I was going to get enough to eat without botting. 1943 Mirror (Perth, Austral.) 11 Sept. 6 (headline) Month for ‘botting’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > see also also refers to : -botcomb. form < n.¹c1465n.²1491n.³1736n.⁴1922n.⁵1969v.1921 see also
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† botn.²

botn.³

botn.⁴

botn.⁵