botter

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See also: Botter and bótter

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From bot +‎ -er.

Noun

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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.
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Etymology 2

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From bottom (backside).

Noun

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

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

Derived terms

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Verb

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

  1. to butter; to spread butter

Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.tər/
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

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Botter (Dutch fishing vessel).

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.

Noun

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botter m (plural botters, diminutive bottertje n)

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

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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botter

  1. comparative degree of bot

French

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Etymology

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From botte (boot) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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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?

Usage notes

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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.

Conjugation

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Further reading

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Norman

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Etymology

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botte (boot) +‎ -er

Verb

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botter

  1. (Jersey) to boot