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Hut vs Bothy - What's the difference?

hut | bothy |

As nouns the difference between hut and bothy

is that hut is hat or hut can be guard while bothy is (scotland) a small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands.

hut

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a small wooden shed
  • a primitive dwelling

    • Verb

    (hutt)
  • (rare, archaic, transitive) to put into a hut
    • to hut troops in winter quarters
  • (rare, archaic, intransitive) to take shelter in a hut
  • * Washington Irving
    • The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown.

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    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.