Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See bot.
  • noun The name given by lace-makers to the round cushion, held on the knee, on which the lace is woven.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of bot. (the larva of the botfly)

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Examples

  • When you're going through a tough time and life keeps kicking you in the "bott".

    [Help] Most Recent Posts jetmoo 2010

  • Much debate about how a TV series can spawn tourist trails and how the characters infiltrate our thinking, who can have forgotten Mrs Pumphrey, the pampered Pekinese dog Tricki Woo and his regular bouts of flop-bott.

    Endsleigh Salon - The Test of Time 2008

  • Much debate about how a TV series can spawn tourist trails and how the characters infiltrate our thinking, who can have forgotten Mrs Pumphrey, the pampered Pekinese dog Tricki Woo and his regular bouts of flop-bott.

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  • Much debate about how a TV series can spawn tourist trails and how the characters infiltrate our thinking, who can have forgotten Mrs Pumphrey, the pampered Pekinese dog Tricki Woo and his regular bouts of flop-bott.

    Endsleigh Salon - The Test of Time 2008

  • October 5, 2009 at 3:13 pm i is glad i bott candees frum wallmart an snuk dems in. faive dollur boks of woppur candies at moobee theeter? do not want!

    Shh!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Mii two, I gotta Squeak hoo is no afraid of no squirt bott.

    So… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Mai birfday is tmrw, an mai mommee bott me a card dat sez INCONCEIVABLE when u openz it!

    Nitey nite! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • And yet it is the bott fly of the Holy Ghost, unlistened to, that is the real cause of everything.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • A mob is like a mass of bullocks driven to frenzy by some bott fly, and charging frantically against the tents of some herdsman, imagining that all the evil comes out of these tents.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • I mentally lined this up with flop-bott among the new canine diseases and asked for more information.

    Favourite Dog Stories Herriot, James 1995

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