botter

See also: Botter and bótter

English

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos

Proto-Balto-Slavic *árbas

Proto-Slavic *orbъ

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-éitei

Proto-Slavic *-iti

Proto-Slavic *orbiti

Proto-Indo-European *-otéh₂

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-atā́ˀ

Proto-Slavic *-ota

Proto-Slavic *orbota

Old Czech robota

Czech robota

Czech robotbor.

English robot

English bot

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzijos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English botter

From bot + -er.

Noun

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.

See also

• botherder
• botmaster

Etymology 2

From bottom (“backside”).

Noun

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

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

Anagrams

• bettor

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• boter

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.tər/

Noun

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

• bebotter
• kookbotter
• plaasbotter

Verb

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

1. to butter; to spread butter

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.tər/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

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

botter m (plural botters, diminutive bottertje n)

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

botter

1. comparative degree of bot

French

Etymology

From botte (“boot”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.te/

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Verb

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

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

Conjugation of botter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	botter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bottant /bɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		botté /bɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	botte /bɔt/	bottes /bɔt/	botte /bɔt/	bottons /bɔ.tɔ̃/	bottez /bɔ.te/	bottent /bɔt/
	imperfect	bottais /bɔ.tɛ/	bottais /bɔ.tɛ/	bottait /bɔ.tɛ/	bottions /bɔ.tjɔ̃/	bottiez /bɔ.tje/	bottaient /bɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	bottai /bɔ.te/	bottas /bɔ.ta/	botta /bɔ.ta/	bottâmes /bɔ.tam/	bottâtes /bɔ.tat/	bottèrent /bɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	botterai /bɔ.tʁe/	botteras /bɔ.tʁa/	bottera /bɔ.tʁa/	botterons /bɔ.tʁɔ̃/	botterez /bɔ.tʁe/	botteront /bɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	botterais /bɔ.tʁɛ/	botterais /bɔ.tʁɛ/	botterait /bɔ.tʁɛ/	botterions /bɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	botteriez /bɔ.tə.ʁje/	botteraient /bɔ.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	botte /bɔt/	bottes /bɔt/	botte /bɔt/	bottions /bɔ.tjɔ̃/	bottiez /bɔ.tje/	bottent /bɔt/
	imperfect2	bottasse /bɔ.tas/	bottasses /bɔ.tas/	bottât /bɔ.ta/	bottassions /bɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	bottassiez /bɔ.ta.sje/	bottassent /bɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	botte /bɔt/	—	bottons /bɔ.tɔ̃/	bottez /bɔ.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

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

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

botte (“boot”) +‎ -er

Verb

botter

1. (Jersey) to boot