botty

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒ.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑ.ti/

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• Rhymes: -ɒti
• Hyphenation: bot‧ty

From bott(om) + -y.

botty (plural botties)

1. (UK, childish, slang) Bottom.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks

   • 2010, Zorba Tocks, The Taming of the Twins and a Selection of Illustrated Limericks:

     There once was a soft luscious botty,
     That was spanked very hard and a lotty.
     Until one day,
     In the month of May,
     It was black and blue and looked grotty.

From bot + -y.

botty (comparative more botty, superlative most botty)

1. (informal, rare, computing) Resembling a bot (automated software process); botlike.

   That email seemed pretty botty; it probably shouldn't be trusted.

botty (plural botties)

1. (informal, rare, computing) A term of address for a bot.

   Bye bye, botty.

Compare boot and booting for shoot and shooting, respectively.

botty (plural botties)

1. (MLE, slang) Alternative form of shotty and dotty (“shotgun”).
   • 2017 August 4, “Sticks and Stones”‎^[1]performed by Zone 2 (Kwengface x Trizzac x PS):

     Sticks and Stones may break my bones / Not when I back this botty

   • 2019 May 21, “Can’t Rate” (0:46 from the start), Yanko (7th) (lyrics)‎^[2]:

     If Kizz step with a botty / You know it's packed with two big cylinders

   • 2020 October 17, “Ying Yang”, performed by #TNB MA x Mighty1 x Di, 1:48 and from 2:55:

     Stepped in a rave with ying and yang, that’s me and bro with the botties / Ride around in the back of a cab, that’s me and this thing from Tottie

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botty (comparative more botty, superlative most botty)

1. (slang, archaic) Conceited, swaggering.
   • 1834, anonymous author, Barnadiston: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, volume 2, page 88:

     […] and folk do say he be very fond on her; but for my part, I has I a better opinion o' Mistress Alice, than to allow she can take up with sich a dangerous-looking, botty man as Lieutenant Biddulph be's.

   • 2010, J. A. Noble, The Lime Walk, page 115:

     Such a nasty biggoty-botty man, 'e were, tew. Us 'eard 'im, more'n once, puttin' on 'is parts with young mistress Mary Emma. But 'twere Wade Southwood 'eared yer bumbaistin' t' maister that day!

• [John Camden Hotten] (1859), “BOTTY”, in A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, […], London: John Camden Hotten, […], →OCLC.

• “botty”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.