botter

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒtə/

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• Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)

From bot + -er.

botter (plural botters)

1. (Internet) One who operates a bot (automated software process).
   • 2008, New Scientist, volume 200, numbers 2682-2688, page 28:

     It is estimated by industry and leading botters that only around 1 in 10 players using bots make a profit, mainly in low-stakes games.

• botherder
• botmaster

From bottom (“backside”).

botter (plural botters)

1. (slang, childish) A homosexual man.
   • 2009, Mark Ritchie, Living By The Sword, page 189:

     They told us about anal sex, but it was something that gay men did. And when you're twelve, gay men are botters, benders, shirt lifters and arse bandits.

• Tony Thorne (2014), “botter”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London;  […]: Bloomsbury

• bettor

• boter

From a dialectal variant of Dutch boter, from Middle Dutch bōter, from Old Dutch *butera, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτυρον (boúturon).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.tər/

botter (plural botters, diminutive bottertjie)

1. (uncountable) butter; a soft, fatty foodstuff made from the cream of milk
2. butter type

   Ons het 'n klomp gegeurde botters beskikbaar.

   We have a lot of flavoured butter [types]/butters available.

3. (chemistry, dated) butter; any specific soft substance

• bebotter
• kookbotter
• plaasbotter

botter (present botter, present participle botterende, past participle gebotter)

1. to butter; to spread butter

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.tər/

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Uncertain. Perhaps an action noun from bot (“flounder”) +‎ -er after a type of fish fished for with the vessel, or from bot (“blunt”) from the characteristic shape of its bow.

botter m (plural botters, diminutive bottertje n)

1. a type of Dutch fishing vessel with a characteristic hull

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

botter

1. comparative degree of bot

From botte (“boot”) +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.te/

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botter

1. to kick
2. (slang) to please, to like

   Synonym: plaire

   Ça te botterait d'aller au ciné?

   Would you like to go the cinema?

In the sense please it functions syntactically like plaire, viz. it takes an indirect object and may be translated into English as like, exchanging the subject and object.

• botter en touche
• botter le cul
• botter les fesses

• “botter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

botte (“boot”) +‎ -er

botter

1. (Jersey) to boot