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bot | boy |

As nouns the difference between bot and boy

is that bot is the larva of a bot fly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses while boy is male servant.

As verbs the difference between bot and boy

is that bot is to bugger while boy is to use the word boy to refer to someone.

As an interjection boy is

exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.

bot

English

(wikipedia bot)

Etymology 1

Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic .

Alternative forms

* bott

Noun

(en noun)
  • The larva of a bot fly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
  • * 1946 , National Research Council of Canada, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences , page 76,
  • One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots , suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.
  • * 1984 , Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature , page 157,
  • Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsating bot , but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.

    Etymology 2

    From bottom.

    Verb

  • (British, slang) To bugger
  • (Australia, informal) To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
  • Can I bot a smoke?
    Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.
    Usage notes
    Although there are some references that mention that somebody could actually be a "bot" if they practice the art of botting , this noun is not really commonly used.
    Synonyms
    * (To ask for something) bum (UK)

    Etymology 3

    Shortened from robot.

    Alternative forms

    * 'bot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (science fiction, informal) A physical robot.
  • * 1998 , David G. Hartwell (editor), Year's best SF 3 , page 130,
  • I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time.
    She was me.
  • * 2007 , , The Dreaming Void , unnumbered page,
  • The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.
  • * 2005 , , Quantico , page 71,
  • As he guided the bot, Andrews reminisced about his younger days in Wyoming, when he had witnessed a mishandled load of wheat puff out a dusty fog.
  • (computing) A piece of software designed to complete a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
  • * 2009 , Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation'', Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López (editors), ''Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference , page 42,
  • The goals of IRC bots' vary widely, such as automatically kicking other users off or more nefarious things like spamming other IRC users. In this paper, a free standing IRC ' bot is presented that monitors an IRC channel for commands from a particular user and responds accordingly.
  • * 2009 , Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style , page 91,
  • He is particularly good at creating web robots, which are also called bots .
    A bot' is software that searches for certain kinds of websites and then automatically does something — good or bad — on each site. Google uses ' bots to search and index websites.
  • * 2010 , Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies , page 59,
  • Twitter bots' can leverage Twitter?s text message support to allow users to accomplish tasks from their cell phones. You could consider Twitter accounts that are simply an automated import of blog?s RSS feed a Twitter ' bot .
  • (video games) A computer-controlled character in a multiplayer video game, such as a first-person shooter.
  • Verb

    (bott)
  • (video games) To use a bot, or automated program.
  • Players caught botting will be banned from the server.

    See also

    * Bots

    boy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * boi (Jamaican English)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Male servant.
  • # (now, rare) A male servant, in general senses.
  • # (historical, now, offensive) A non-white male servant, as used especially by whites in a colonial settlement etc.
  • When the 'dipenda' (independence movement) in Belgian Congo turned violent, the white colonisers' often materially privileged black domestic boys were mistrusted and often abused as collaborators.
  • # (now, offensive) A non-white male.
  • (obsolete) A lower-class or disreputable man; a worthless person.
  • * 1608 , (William Shakespeare), (King Lear) , Act I Scene 4:
  • Dost thou call me fool, boy ?
  • A young male human; a male child or young adult.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys , but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
  • A son.
  • * (Walter Scott)
  • My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee.
  • A man of any age, used as a friendly diminutive, or of a man who is merely younger than the speaker.
  • * 1977 , (Bert Newton), to (Mohammed Ali) at the 1977 Logie Awards:[http://www.abc.net.au/thingo/txt/s1088100.htm]
  • I like the boy .
  • (colloquial) A male friend or fellow of some group, community etc. (mainly used in the plural).
  • (US, slang) Heroin.
  • Synonyms

    * brat * knave * lad * squirt * youngster * youth * See also

    See also

    * (African-American) uncle

    Antonyms

    * (young male) girl

    Derived terms

    * altar boy * attaboy * bad boy * bagboy * ball boy, ballboy * bat boy * b-boy * bell boy, bellboy * best boy * big boys * blue-eyed boy * boi * boy band * boy-bishop * boy crazy * boyfriend * boy genius * boyhood * boy howdy * boyish * boyism * boykin (diminutive) * boy oh boy * boy racer * boys and their toys * boy scout * boytjie * boy toy * boys will be boys * boy wonder * bully boy * bum boy * cabin boy * city boy * college boy * copy boy * cowboy * delivery boy * doughboy * farm boy * frat boy * golden boy * homeboy * house boy * lawnboy * little boy * lowboy * mama’s boy]], [[mummy's boy, mummy’s boy * my boy * nancy boy * newsboy * office boy * oh boy * old boy * our boy * page boy, pageboy * paper boy, paperboy * pizza boy, pizzaboy * pool boy * poor boy, po’ boy * poster boy * potboy * pretty boy * rent boy * sailor boy * sea boy * shop boy * sonny boy * stableboy * tallboy * Teddy boy * tomboy * traffic boy * water boy * whipping boy * whiteboy, white boy * wide boy * wolf boy * yellow boy, yellow-boy

    Descendants

    * Irish English: boyo * Vietnamese:

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to use the word boy to refer to someone
  • to act as a boy (qualifier, in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage)
  • * Shakespeare
  • I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness.

    See also

    * girl, man (antonyms in some senses) * *

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