A small cottage or hut; specifically (Scotland), one often left unlocked for communal use in a remote, often mountainous, area by hikers, labourers, etc.
A small cottage or hut; specifically (Scotland), one often left unlocked for communal use in a remote, often mountainous, area by hikers, labourers, etc.
But civilization had changed that completely. Not one criminal in a thousand now fled to the Highlands or to Wales for refuge. A man demanded the means of food and shelter in his retreat nowadays, and a deserted bothy or a cave on the hi…
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(obsolete, Ireland) An enclosed shelter in the pasture land, usually in the mountainous parts, for the shelter of cattle or their herders.
(obsolete, Ireland) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk.
(UK, coarse, _, slang) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(agriculture, historical) A building on a farm, sometimes with just one room, for (usually unmarried male) farmworkers or other labourers to live in.
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.
A building for workers to rest in.
Often Neil sat in their bothy on winter nights and told Calum about seas he had never seen.
“Put me in a bothy and throw away the key Richard Keys”