Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war.
- n. Goods or property seized by force or piracy.
- n. A valuable prize, award, or gain.
- n. Slang The buttocks.
- n. Vulgar Slang The vulva or vagina.
- n. Vulgar Slang Sexual intercourse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Spoil taken from an enemy in war; plunder; pillage.
- n. That which is seized by violence and robbery.
- n. A prize; gain: without reference to its being taken by force.
- n. Synonyms Plunder, etc. See pillage, n.
Wiktionary
- n. nautical A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once.
- n. Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy.
- n. slang The buttocks, usually that of a female.
- n. slang, not countable A woman, considered as sexual partner or sex object.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
WordNet 3.0
- n. goods or money obtained illegally
Etymologies
- From Old French butin ("booty") (Wiktionary)
- Middle English botye (influenced by bote, advantage; see boot2), probably from Middle Low German būte, exchange.African American Vernacular English, from obsolete Black English booty, body, perhaps alteration of body. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I believe African Americans prefer the term "booty.”
“A retooled classic hitting bookstores this week will raise new questions for millions of Christians about the nature of sin, whether women can exert authority over men and what the word "booty" really means.”
“Meet a man who wants to help women feel powerful and avoid what he calls the booty call blues.”
“This way they can still collect all the booty from the big banks to line their pockets.”
“When I see a comment about wanting to check out munchkin booty and the grown up in me says let it go.”
“His burgled booty is estimated in value at $1.5 million (including damaged vehicles).”
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“I keep missing the news reports of bands of Republicans riding into villages, raping, pillaging and coming away with their millions in booty stolen from the poor.”
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“Unfortunately, the girl I saw today walking down the street in short booty shorts and flip flops is more easily seduced by mother nature than I am.”
“Black-pepper pancetta from Salumi and salt-cured capers, booty from a recent trip to Seattle, rounded out my list of risotto ingredients.”
“Bitch Slap follows three bad girls (a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer and a corporate powerbroker) as they arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort massive booty from a ruthless underworld kingpin.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘booty’.
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buttocks
words for buttocks and anything
to do with buttockshiney, heiney, nates, hindquarters, bum, backside, behind, bottom, breech, bunny, butt, can and 160 more...
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MANY A WORD!
This is just a list, right, that I'm gonna, like, fill with words, that, like, are every word that I can, like, think of with, ahhmm, my brain.
and, able, art, ass, algebra, amp, ankle, booze, bong, aura, bling, bright and 134 more...
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Words Heard Too Often In Songs
Words overused in modern pop music.
Also see ruzuzu's list: Words that should be heard in songs more often.love, heart, dance, dancefloor, down, take, want, night, fight, baby, like, ooooh and 136 more...
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Nouns for XKCD936-compliant passphrases
A list of 2048 common English nouns (of 4 letters or more) that could be used to generate plausible, memorable random phrases.
I'm going to use this list in a password generator, inspi...miracle, hotdog, chair, horse, staple, battery, beer, cheese, fire, head, hand, foot and 15 more...
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Arrr.... Pirate Lingo
davy jones locker, ahoy!, scurvy, slimebucket, plank, aye, keelhaul, booty, avast, scallywag, parlay, shiver me timbers! and 1 more...
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money
words for currency
money, cheddar, beans, cheese, cash, gwap, cream, brass, cake, bread, scratch, sugar and 41 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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haguremetaru's Words
floozy, mandalay, mandible, x, don't, will, ridiculous, funily, stuff, junk, doody, manning and 152 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Any word!
U can put any word anything. It doesn't matter what word but u must make sure that it isn't already in here.
Queen, King, Me, Happy, HappySorry, Favorite, capricious, booty
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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sputnik
canoodle, span, hasten, discombobulate, sputnik, clod, encrusted, spit-shine, zeitgeist, landslide, laid, cherish and 350 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for booty.
oroboros From the police blotter of the SLO (San Luis Obispo, CA) City News, March 10-16 2011:
"Theft: Police were called at 5:17 P.M. to the 700 block of Higuera St. at Fanny Wrappers Lingerie shop for a reported shoplifting. No word on the booty that was pinched." Mar 18, 2011
madmouth cf. junk in the trunk, an inverse metaphor of the original booty Sep 25, 2009
minerva How came she (thought I at the instant) by all this penetration? My devil surely does not play me booty. If I thought he did, I would marry and live honest, to be even with him.
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Dec 11, 2007
minerva Also: to play (someone) booty: to act falsely (against someone) for gain. Dec 11, 2007
82times "professor, what's another word for pirate treasure?" Sep 24, 2007
slumry "plunder, gain, profit," c.1439, from O.Fr. butin "booty," from M.L.G. bute "exchange;" infl. in form and sense by boot (2). Meaning "female body considered as a sex object" is 1920s, black slang.
Jul 17, 2007
slumry Shake it till you break it. ;-) Jul 17, 2007
uselessness Shake shake shake.
Shake shake shake.
Shake your booty. Jul 17, 2007
brtom "He heaves his booty, tugs askew his peaked cap and hobbles off mutely."
Joyce, Ulysses, 15 Jan 27, 2007
haguremetaru booty: behind, butt, posterior, etc. Dec 9, 2006