Definition of "bothy" [both•y]

• Scots A hut or small cottage. (noun)

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• "I lived in a broken down long-deserted shepherd's hut, known as a bothy, out on a windy Scottish mountainside, without electricity."
• "The other was the head of the "bothy" or boarding-house for hired men,"
• "The master of a stately park in Devon, a moor and "bothy" in the highlands, a villa on the Arno, a gem of a cottage in the Isle of"