Booty
adj, name, noun, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once. countable, uncountable
- 2 The buttocks. slang
"You got a big ol' booty."
- 3 Alternative spelling of bootee. alt-of, alternative
- 4 goods or money obtained illegally wordnet
- 5 Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy. countable, uncountable
"The soldier gets his booty ; the combatant his spoils ; the carnivorous animal his prey. Booty respects what is of personal service to the captor ; spoils whatever serves to designate his triumph ; prey includes whatever gratifies the appetite and is to be consumed."
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- 6 A person considered as a sexual partner or sex object. slang, uncountable, vulgar
"You know me. It's my duty to please that booty!"
- 7 Something that has been stolen or illegally, mischievously, or greedily obtained from elsewhere. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"After returning from their Halloween trick-or-treating, the kids settled down to enjoy their booty of candies."
- 8 Sexual intercourse. slang, vulgar
""I got some booty, I got some booty""
- 1 Of low quality; bad. not-comparable, slang, vulgar
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"The massacre in Norway and the recent rebellion and the booty in England, are dreadful in consideration of the circumstances that the world drifted into."
Etymology
From Middle English buty, botye, bottyne, from Old French butin, botin, from Middle Low German bǖte (“distribution, exchange, loot”), of obscure origin, but related to Middle High German biute, German Beute (“booty”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“profit, gains; victory”). Sense perhaps influenced by boot (as in to boot).
Probably an alteration of botty. Possibly influenced by booty (etymology 1).
From boot.
Unexplained.
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