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▪ I. booty, n.|ˈbuːtɪ|
Forms: 5–6 botye, buty, 6 boty, bootye, bootie, (7 Sc. bouty), 6– booty.
[The mod. as well as the early forms, point to a ME. long ō, and thus to connexion with bōt, boot n.1 advantage, and v.1 to profit. But there is no accounting for such a formation from bōt, boot directly; and it is generally held that the English word is due to an adaptation of some word cognate with Ger. beute, F. butin (or the latter itself) influenced in form by association with bōt, boot. The Teutonic words in question are ON. býti ‘exchange, barter’, connected with býta ‘to exchange’; also ‘to deal out, distribute’; MDu. and MLG. büte (MG. bûte, MHG. biute, mod.G. beute, mod.Du. buit), all with the sense ‘booty’. Butin, from French, was used side by side with boty, booty during the 16th c., and it is curious that the first known instances of both occur in Caxton's Chesse, within a few lines of each other: see butin. Caxton has also buty (see 1491), and in 17th c. we find an instance of bootyn for butin: but on the whole the contact of the two forms appears to be slight. The shorter form boot (n.2), and the related boot v.2, booter (freebooter), booting, are all later.
(An early but dubiously genuine use appears under booty a., which, if really used by Lydgate c 1430, would carry the question farther back, but leave it still more obscure.)]
1. orig. Plunder, gain, or profit acquired in common and destined to be divided among the winners.
a. That which is taken from an enemy in war; the collective plunder or spoil. (No plural.)
1474Caxton Chesse 39 So shold the dispoyle and botye be comune vnto them. 1491― Four Sons Aymon (1885) 143 The kyng made the buty to be dealed, Wherof the most part he made to be gyven to reynawde & his brethern. 1530Palsgr. 200/1 Boty that men of warre take, butin. 1579Digges Stratiot. 129 The Bootie shall be divided, according to the auncient lawes of the warres. 1611Bible Numb. xxxi. 32. 1732 T. Lediard Sethos II. ix. 287 They were too happy to give them a share of the booty. 1814Wellington in Gurw. Disp. XII. 7 What ought to be considered as booty to the army.
b. That which is captured by robbers or thieves.
1567Harman Caveat (1869) 33 When they haue a greatter booty then they maye cary awaye quickly. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen IV, i. ii. 184 When they haue the booty, if you and I do not rob them.
†2. A thing taken by force; a prize. (With pl.)
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 186 b, His souldyers had conspired..to conuerte all the booties that they shoulde geat, to their owne priuate vse. 1568Like will to Like in Hazl. Dodsl. III. 334 Art thou not agreed These two booties equally to divide? 1591Horsey Trav. (1857) 161 To lose a great deall of his artillerie, buties, and baggage. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 481 To..take prizes or booties. 1823Byron Juan x. lxix, Packets, all whose passengers are booties To those who upon land or water dwell.
3. loosely. Plunder, spoil, gain; a prize; without reference to its being common property.
1580Baret Alv. B 932 The Bootie or spoyle that a man hath gotten of his enemies. 1599R. Greenham Wks. (ed. 2) 49 A flatterer comming to haue some bootie. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 862 Fortune..drops Booties in my mouth. 1662More Antid. Ath. ii. x. (1712) 71 That she might not be too easie a Booty for him. 1722De Foe Moll Fl. (1840) 328 He robbed the best Chester coaches and got a very great booty. 1743Fielding Jon. Wild ii. ii, Bagshot..had carried off a pretty considerable booty from their engagements at dice. 1839Thirlwall Greece I. 329 The ingenious and successful pilferer gained applause with his booty. 1866Kingsley Herew. v. 115 He got very little booty there.
4. to play booty: To join with confederates in order to ‘spoil’ or victimize another player; to play into the hands of confederates in order to share the ‘plunder’ with them; hence to play or act falsely so as to gain a desired object; esp. to play badly intentionally in order to lose the game. So (obs.) to bowl booty, cast booty, perjure booty, talk booty, write booty.
1561J. Awdelay Frat. Vacab. 9 And consent as though they will play booty against him. 1592Greene Art Conny catch. ii. 8 The bowlers cast euer booty and doth win or loose as the bet of the gripe leadeth them. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. i. 222 Wee are three of vs, let vs all play booty, and joyne together to coozen the Cardinall. 1650Weldon Crt. Jas. I, 99 Some of them played booty, and in truth, the Game was not plaid above board. 1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. i. (1684) 30 What think you of playing it on booty? Har. What do you mean? T. Bell. Pretend to be in love with one another. 1678Butler Hud., Lady's Answ. 180 Can own the same thing, and disown; And perjure Booty, Pro and Con. 1711Addison Spect. No. 60 ⁋9 Would not one be apt to believe that the Author played booty, and did not make his List of Rhymes till he had finished his Poem? 1771P. Parsons Newmarket I. 108 Bribing the rider to play booty, to lose the race. 1813Examiner 17 May 319/1, I gave a jockey a handsome premium to play booty. 1831Disraeli Yng. Duke (L.), One thing remained to be lost—what he called his honour, which was already on the scent to play booty.
b. Hence: Booty = playing booty.
1608Dekker Belman Lond. Wks. 1884–5 III. 135–6 Many other practises there are in bowling tending to cozenage, but y⊇ greatest and grossest is Booty: in which y⊇ deceipt is so open and palpable that I haue seene men stone-blind offer to lay Betts franckely..only by hearing who played, and how the old Grypes had made their layes. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. II. 145 A Riddle was frequently the Stratagem for a Booty.
5. Comb. † booty-fellow: one who shares booty with others; a confederate in plundering, swindling, etc. (cf. sense 4).
1530Palsgr. 200/1 Botyfelowe, parsonnier. 1532Dice-Play (1850) 43 As when one man lost an hundred pound land at shooting, by occasion that some that shot with him on his side were booty fellows against him.
▪ II. † ˈbooty, n.2 Obs.
Erroneously used for boot n.1 A remedy; advantage.
1577Holinshed Chron. III. 284 It was no bootie to advise him to the contrarie of that his concluded purpose. 1581W. Stafford Exam. Compl. i. (1876) 18 Neede (as yee knowe) hath no booty.
▪ III. booty, n.3 slang (orig. and chiefly among African-Americans).
Brit. |ˈbuːti|, U.S. |ˈbudi|
Forms: 19– boody, 19– bootie, 19– booty
[Probably an altered form of botty n.; compare batty n.2 Perhaps influenced (especially in sense 1) by booty n.1]
1. Sexual intercourse; a person (esp. a woman) regarded as an object of sexual ambition or desire. Also (occas.): the female genitals. Cf. ass n.2 1b.
1926C. Van Vechten Nigger Heaven ii. iii. 215 Now..that you've gone white, do you really want..pinks for boody? 1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men 192 If you want good boody Oh, go to Ella Wall. 1978W. Brown Tragic Magic 104 I'm giving up neither money or bootie! 1992F. M. Davis Livin' Blues 36 A woman had a ‘pussy’..or ‘booty’. 1997Touch May 20/2 Grab a glass of wine..in the upstairs bar and watch all that fine booty just flow on by.
2. The buttocks.
Prob. the earlier sense, esp. given the similar sense development of ass n.2, pussy n. 3, etc.
1959F. L. Brown Trumbull Park 363 Getting kicked in the booty would be mighty discouraging too. 1960N. Florence in P. Oliver Blues fell this Morning vii. 189, I can strut my boody, make my sweet pigmeat. 1980Washington Post (Nexis) 4 July c8 ‘You're cute up there,’ she told singer Esther Williams. ‘You should shake your booty a little. You have a nice booty. Shake it a little.’ 1999N.Y. Times 12 Dec. ix. 4/3 This is a woman's best part... A skirt has to scoop under the booty.
Compounds. booty bandit n. chiefly Prison slang a homosexual man; (also) a man who commits male rape.
1962P. Crump Burn, Killer, Burn 293, I lost 'em fightin' a *booty bandit in a black cell. 1993K. Scott Monster 293 Fat Rat had a reputation for being a ‘booty bandit’ and thrived on weak men with tight asses. 1998G. Canada Reaching up for Manhood 143 All of the guys who been serving time in prison know the score... When the booty bandit stops someone else from taking the guy's dessert, it's a declaration that this is my new bitch.
booty call n. a visit made to a person for the (sole) purpose of having sexual intercourse; an invitation to have sexual intercourse.
1993‘Duice’ Booty Call (title of song) *Booty call. 1994YSB (Nexis) 30 Apr. 54 Guys don't have to make the ‘booty’ calls these days. 2001Cosmopolitan June 167/2 A guy I'd been seeing made a booty call. Afterward, he said, ‘High five!’ and reached out his hand to slap mine.
▪ IV. † ˈbooty, a. Obs.
[See booty n.1: but could this be orig. from boot n.1 in sense of ‘profit’?]
Sharing, participating.
c1430Lydg. Bochas iv. (1494) Q iv a, His desyre and his entencion Was to be boty [ed. 1554 booting] with theym of suche pillage. 1570Levins Manip. 111 Bootye, particeps.
▪ V. † ˈbooty, v. Obs.
intr. To collect booty.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. T., Butiner, to bootie, or pray. |