Home › Words › B › bothymanbothymanbothyman means A laborer living in a bothy.EtymologyFrom bothy + -man.nounA laborer living in a bothy.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.bothy 74% match — A small cottage or hut; specifically (Scotland), one often left unlocked for communal use in a remote, often mountainous, area by hikers, labourers, etc. vs bothyman →bywoner 63% match — A poor tenant farmer who labours for the owner and does some farming of his own. vs bothyman →workman 61% match — A man who labours for wages. vs bothyman →byreman 59% match — A man employed to look after cows in a byre. vs bothyman →cottier 59% match — Someone who lives in a cot or cottage; a cottager. vs bothyman →buttyman 59% match — Synonym of butty (“miner who works under contract”). vs bothyman →cotsetla 59% match — A cottager or free labourer. vs bothyman →hodman 58% match — Synonym of hod carrier. vs bothyman →