booty
pronunciation
How to pronounce booty in British English:
UK [ˈbu:ti]
How to pronounce booty in American English:
US [ˈbuti]
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- Noun:
- goods or money obtained illegally
Word Origin
- booty
- booty: [15] Booty has no connection with boots. It came into English as butin (it did not finally lose its n until the 18th century), a borrowing from Old French butin, but Old French had got it from Middle Low German būte ‘exchange’ (whence German beute and Dutch buit ‘loot’), pointing to a prehistoric Germanic source *būtiōn.=> filibuster, freebooter
- booty (n.)
- "plunder, gain, profit," mid-15c., from Old French butin "booty" (14c.), from a Germanic source akin to Middle Low German bute "exchange." Influenced in form and sense by boot (n.2) and in form by nouns ending in -y. Meaning "female body considered as a sex object" is 1920s, black slang.
Example
- 1. Where 's my booty , has anyone seen it ?
- 2. Among the booty was a book , 101 ways to be a great mom .
- 3. Empires like to collect booty .
- 4. This was booty seized during the opium wars and then the boxer uprising of 1900 .
- 5. Hollowed-out smuggler buttons allowed thieves to transport jewels and other booty secretly .