noun
definition
A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands.
Examples of bothy in a Sentence
Choose to stay in our bed and breakfast accommodation or our self catering bothy.
I remember him once singing a snatch from the bothy ballad The Dying Ploughboy.
We have recently started using a second bothy in the Borders for the initial bothy venture.
Rather strangely, this was actually the first night I'd spent where I didn't have a bothy to cook in.
The next morning, I awoke to glorious sunshine and left the bothy, singing an old Paul Simon song as I went.
From the top of the bank a few sheets of corrugated iron were seen protruding and dropping down we found the bothy.
Or a sumptuous picnic using delicious Scottish produce in a remote mountain bothy.
Please note therefore that this building is no longer an open bothy.
Only once did it rain seriously and then, with the same good luck, I stumbled on a small isolated bothy.
The bothy has now had some visitors and the bothy log book shows that people are beginning to enjoy the new bothy.
Longer courses will include an over night expedition in a mountain bothy, wild camping or in a " bivy " .
And in the resulting conflagration the bothy burnt down.
On flat land to the west of Loch Affric, ringed by high mountains, the bothy 's location makes for a memorable week.
Why not treat yourself to a cup of freshly ground coffee or a choice of specialty teas at the Coffee Bothy?