Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag (“maggot”).
bot (plural bots)
- The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
1946, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, page 76:One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots, suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.
1984, Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature, page 157:Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsating bot, but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.
From bottom.
bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)
- (British, slang) To bugger.
- (Australia, informal) To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
- Synonym: (UK) bum
Can I bot a smoke?
Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.
Clipping of robot.
bot (plural bots)
- (science fiction, informal) A physical robot.
1998, David G. Hartwell, editor, Year's best SF 3, page 130:I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time. She was me.
2005, Greg Bear, Quantico[1], page 71:As he guided the bot, Andrews reminisced about his younger days in Wyoming, when he had witnessed a mishandled load of wheat puff out a dusty fog.
2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void[2]:The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.
- (computing) A piece of software designed to perform a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
2009, Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, “Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation”, in Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López, editors, Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference[3], page 42:The goals of IRC bots vary widely, such as automatically kicking other users off or more nefarious things like spamming other IRC users. In this paper, a free standing IRC bot is presented that monitors an IRC channel for commands from a particular user and responds accordingly.
2009, Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style[4], page 91:He is particularly good at creating web robots, which are also called bots. A bot is software that searches for certain kinds of websites and then automatically does something — good or bad — on each site. Google uses bots to search and index websites.
2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies[5], page 59:Twitter bots can leverage Twitter′s text message support to allow users to accomplish tasks from their cell phones. You could consider Twitter accounts that are simply an automated import of blog′s RSS feed a Twitter bot.
2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is Mostly Bots”, in The Atlantic[6], retrieved 2021-09-01:Overall, bots—good and bad—are responsible for 52 percent of web traffic, according to a new report by the security firm Imperva, which issues an annual assessment of bot activity online.
- (video games) A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
- Synonyms: NPC, AI
2012, Philip Hingston, Believable Bots: Can Computers Play Like People?, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 232:Most games offer both single player mode, in which a player competes against computer rivals—bots—and a multiplayer mode, which is a contest among people only.
- (video games, slang, derogatory) A supremely unskilled player.
2021 March 6, Aydan Conrad (quoted), Wesley Yin-Poole, “Call of Duty: Warzone squad sets new world record with an astonishing 162 kills in a single game”, in Eurogamer[7]:"That lobby was bronze negative 10!" Aydan joked on-stream, noting how easy it felt for his squad. "We got blessed with the lobby. It was such a bot lobby."
- (Internet slang, figuratively) A person with no ability to think for themselves.
[2024 June 10, Chris Stokel-Walker, “The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an insult on social media”, in New Scientist[8], →ISSN, retrieved 2024-06-10:The meaning of the word "bot" on Twitter/X seems to have shifted over time, with people originally using it to flag automated accounts, but now employing it to insult people they disagree with]
a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks
- Arabic: بُوت m (būt), بُوت m (bot), رُوبُوت (ar) m (robut), رُوبُوت (ar) m (rūbut)
- Belarusian: бот m (bot), ро́бат m (róbat)
- Bulgarian: бот m (bot)
- Catalan: bot (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 機器人/机器人 (zh) (jīqìrén)
- Dutch: bot (nl)
- Esperanto: roboto (eo)
- Finnish: botti (fi)
- French: robot (fr) m, bot (fr) m
- Galician: bot m
- German: Bot (de) m
- Greek: μποτ (el) n (bot), ρομπότ (el) m (rompót)
- Hebrew: בּוֹט (he) m (bot)
- Hindi: बोट (hi) m (boṭ)
- Japanese: ボット (ja) (botto), ロボット (ja) (robotto)
- Korean: 봇 (bot)
- Latin: botum n, robotum n
- Latvian: robotprogrammatūra f, bots m
- Persian: ربات (fa) (robât)
- Polish: bot (pl) m
- Portuguese: bot (pt) m
- Romanian: bot (ro)
- Russian: бот (ru) m (bot), ро́бот (ru) m (róbot)
- Spanish: bot (es) m
- Swedish: bot (sv) c
- Thai: บอต (bɔ̀ɔt)
- Turkish: bot (tr)
- Ukrainian: бот (uk) m (bot), ро́бот (uk) m (róbot)
- Urdu: بوٹ m (boṭ)
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bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)
- (video games) To use a bot, or automated program.
Players caught botting will be banned from the server.
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
From Dutch bot, from botte. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buddǭ.
bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)
- sprout, bud
bot (present bot, present participle bot, past participle gebot)
- to sprout, to bud
From Dutch bot, from Middle Dutch bot. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *buttaz.
bot (attributive botte, comparative botter, superlative botste)
- blunt, dull (of an object)
- obtuse, dull, stupid
bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)
- a bone
- (fish) flounder, fluke, butt
- Synonym: botvis
- (parasitic flatworm) fluke
- Synonym: slakwurm
bot
- Alternative spelling of bod
From English boat.
bot
- boat
Deverbal from botar.
bot m (plural bots)
- jump, leap
- Synonyms: salt, saltiró
Borrowed from Middle English bot (whence English boat), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”).
bot m (plural bots)
- boat
- Synonyms: barca, vaixell
Inherited from Late Latin buttis (“wineskin”), probably of Ancient Greek origin.
bot m (plural bots)
- wineskin
- Synonym: odre
- bagpipes
- Synonyms: bot de gemecs, cornamusa
- sunfish (large marine fish of the family Molidae)
- Synonym: mola
bot
- inflection of botre:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Possibly from a derivative of Latin battuō, or alternatively of Germanic origin. Compare Italian botta, French botte.
bot m
- blow, slap, smack, whack, knock, strike, thud
From Middle Dutch bot, but, butte, related to Middle Low German but (“dull, plump, coarse”), West Frisian bot (“blunt”). Perhaps ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, butt”).
bot (comparative botter, superlative botst)
- not sharp, blunt, dull
De schaar is te bot om het papier goed te knippen.- The scissors are too blunt to cut the paper properly.
- impolite, badly behaving: curt, blunt, rude
Zijn opmerking was nogal bot en kwetste haar gevoelens.- His remark was quite impolite and hurt her feelings.
- Berbice Creole Dutch: dofu
- → Papiamentu: bòt
From Middle Dutch but. Cognate with English butt, German Butt, in all senses.
bot n (plural botten, diminutive botje n)
- bone
- Synonyms: been, knekel, knook
De dokter heeft vastgesteld dat hij een gebroken bot heeft.- The doctor has determined that he has a broken bone.
From Middle Dutch bot. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“stumpy”). Cognate with English butt (“flatfish”), German Butt (“lefteye flounder”), West Frisian bot (“flounder”).
bot m (plural botten, diminutive botje n)
- flounder (a type of fish)
Ik heb een heerlijke bot gevangen tijdens het vissen.- I caught a delicious flounder while fishing.
- Afrikaans: bot
- → West Frisian: bot
From French botte.
bot f (plural botten, diminutive botje n)
- (Belgium) boot
Borrowed from English bot, from robot.
bot m (plural bots, diminutive botje n)
- A bot (software for repetitive minor tasks; computer-controlled character in video games).
From Middle French bot (16th c.). Of unknown origin. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“butt, stump, end”). If so, a doublet of but.
bot (feminine bote, masculine plural bots, feminine plural botes)
- (of a foot) affected by the deformation known as clubfoot
- un pied bot ― a clubfoot
- (rare, of a hand) affected by a similar-looking deformation
- une main bote ― a deformed hand
From English bot.
bot m (plural bots)
- (computing) bot
bot
- first/third-person singular preterite of bieten
From a Slavic, language, from Proto-Slavic *bъtъ.
bot (plural botok)
- stick, staff
- walking stick, cane
- Synonyms: sétabot, sétapálca
- bot in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- bot in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Derived from English but.
bot
- but
Im waan unu nof taim, bot unu naa lisn.- He warned you many times, but you didn't listen.
bot
- Romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀
From Old English bāt.
bot (plural botes)
- A seafaring vessel or watercraft; a device for navigating the waters:
- A boat (a watercraft or vessel smaller than a ship).
- A boat stowed on a ship for utility purposes, especially for tendering.
- (figurative) The path or course of one's life; one's direction.
From Old Norse búð.
bot
- Alternative form of bothe (“booth”)
From Old English batt.
bot
- Alternative form of bat
From Old English bōt.
bot
- Alternative form of bote (“help, benefit”)
From Old French bote.
bot
- Alternative form of bote (“boot”)
From Proto-Celtic *bozdos (“tail, penis”) (compare Welsh both (“hub, nave”), Breton bod (“bush, shrub; branch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gwosdʰos (“piece of wood”), compare Proto-Slavic *gvozdь (“nail, tack, peg”).
bot m
- tail
- penis
Middle Irish mutation
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From Old Norse bót.
bot f or m (definite singular bota or boten, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)
- a fine (sum of money to be paid as a penalty for an offence)
- a remedy
- a patch
- “bot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “bot_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
From Old Norse bót.
bot f (definite singular bota, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)
- a fine (as above)
- a remedy
- a patch
- “bot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
From Proto-West Germanic *bōtu (“recompense”).
bōt f (nominative plural bōte)
- help, assistance, rescue, remedy, cure, deliverance from evil
- Byþ hræd bót. ― The cure will be quick.
- mending, repair, improvement
- ... and án swulung þǽre cirican to bóte ― and an offering to the church for repairs
- compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance
- For bóte his synna ― for a redressing of his sins
- improvement in (moral) condition, amendment
- Hé tó bóte gehwearf ― he was converted
Declension of bot (strong ō-stem)
- bryċġbōt (“repairing of bridges”)
- burgbōt, burhbōt (“liability for repair of the walls of a town or fortress”)
- bōtan, bētan (“to amend, repair, restore, cure, atone”)
- bōtettan (“to improve, repair, to better”)
- bōtlēas (“unpardonable, not to be atoned for by bōt”)
- bōtwyrþe (“pardonable, that can be atoned for by bōt”)
- cynebōt (“king's compensation”)
- dǣdbōt (“amends, atonement, repentance, penitence”)
- dǣdbōtlihting (“mitigation of penance”)
- dǣdbōtnes, dǣdbētnes (“penitence”)
- dolgbōt, dolhbōt (“fine or compensation for wounding”)
- eftbōt (“restoration to health”)
- fǣhþbōt (“payment, fine for engaging in a feud”)
- feohbōt (“money compensation”)
- godbōt (“atonement”)
- hādbōt (“compensation for injury or insult to a priest”)
- mægþbōt (“fine for assault on an unmarried woman”)
- manbōt (“fine paid to the lord of a man slain”)
- mǣgbōt (“compensation paid to the relatives of a murdered man, maegbot”)
- mōnaþbōt (“penance lasting a month”)
- synbōt (“penance”)
- sārbōt (“compensation for wounding”)
- twibōte, twibēte (“subject to double compensation”, adjective, adverb)
- tō bōte (“to boot, with advantage, besides, moreover”)
- wucubōt (“penance lasting a week”)
- wēofodbōt (“fine for injuring a priest”)
- ċiriċbōt (“repair of churches”)
From Vulgar Latin *padda, probably a Germanic loan from Frankish *paddā (“toad”). Compare Italian botta (“toad”), Old English padde (“toad”), Old Norse padda (“toad”). More at paddock.
bot oblique singular, f (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular bot, nominative plural boz or botz)
- toad (animal)
From boter (“to strike”), from Frankish *buttan, from *bautan (“to hit, strike”).
bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)
- strike; hit; blow
See bat.
bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)
- Alternative form of bat
See bout.
bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)
- Alternative form of bout
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bot) (sense #1, 'toad' and #2, 'strike')
- bot on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (sense #3, 'boat' and a citation or sense #4, 'end')
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀəqat (compare Malay berat). Doublet of bwat and wrat.
bot
- heavy
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat. Doublet of bwat and wwat.
bot
- style, make
- "bot" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
From Old Norse bót, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō.
bōt f
- improvement
- benefit, utility
- cure
- compensation
Declension of bōt (consonant stem)
or
Declension of bōt (i-stem)
Borrowed from Old Czech bot, from French botte.
bot m inan (diminutive botek)
- ankle boot
Borrowed from English bot.
bot m animal
- (computing) bot
- bot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- bot in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Unadapted borrowing from English bot. Doublet of robô.
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/, (proscribed, but common) /ˈbu.t͡ʃi/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/, (proscribed, but common) /ˈbu.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.te/, (proscribed, but common) /ˈbu.te/
bot m (plural bots)
- (computing) bot (a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks)
- (video games) bot (a player controlled by software)
Unknown. Possibly from a Vulgar Latin root *botum, perhaps from Latin botulus or from a root *botium, a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *boce (“knob”), from Old High German bozzan (“to beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan (“to push, strike”).[1]
Compare Italian bozza, French bosse. See also butuc and boț.
bot n (plural boturi)
- (of animals) snout, mouth
- (of a person, vulgar) mouth
- bump
- hump
- (vulgar) blowjob
From English bot.
bot m (plural boți)
- bot
Declension of bot
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Borrowed from English bot.
- IPA(key): /ˈbot/ [ˈbot̪]
- Rhymes: -ot
- Syllabification: bot
bot m (plural bots)
- bot (robot)
From Old Swedish bōt (“improvement”), from Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (but) (in the Latin script bót) whence also Icelandic bót), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. Akin to English boot (“remedy, profit”). Masculine in Late Modern Swedish.
bot c
- fine (penalty in money)
- In newer usage, the indefinite plural böter has frequently been reinterpreted as a singular noun due to usage without an article. Thus, for example, the common phrase "betala böter" has shifted in meaning from "pay fines" to "pay a fine". This is unrecognized by language authorities, however.
Originally the same word as etymology 1.
bot c
- cure; remedy
- (religious) penance
Unadapted borrowing from English bot.
bot c
- bot (robot)
From Proto-Turkic *būt (“thigh”).
bot
- thigh
From French botte.
bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)
- boot
From English boat
bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)
- boat
- Synonym: tekne
bot (nominative plural bots)
- boat
declension of bot
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
From Old Frisian butie, from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end piece”), related to English butt.
bot
- curt, blunt, rude
- dull (as a knife)
- “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
bot
- very, quite
- “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Uncertain. Possibly derived from bot (“blunt-headed fish”), in which case ultimately from the source of Etymology 1 above. Compare Dutch bot and the second element of English halibut.
bot c (plural botten, diminutive botsje or botke)
- flounder (a type of fish)