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Cottage vs Bothy - What's the difference?

cottage | bothy |

As nouns the difference between cottage and bothy

is that cottage is a small house; a cot; a hut while bothy is (scotland) a small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands.

As a verb cottage

is to stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.

cottage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small house; a cot; a hut.
  • A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
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    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage ’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
  • (UK, slang, dated) A public toilet.

    • Usage notes

    Sense “public toilet” dates from 19th century, now only in gay slang.

    Derived terms

    * cottage cheese * cottage hospital * cottage industry

    Related terms

    * (l) *

    Verb

    (cottag)
  • To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
  • (intransitive, British, slang) Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
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    bothy

    English

    (wikipedia bothy)

    Alternative forms

    * boothy * bothie

    Noun

    (bothies)
  • (Scotland) A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands.
  • * 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 106:
    • Often Neil sat in their bothy on winter nights and told Calum about seas he had never seen.