botter

See also: Botter

English

Etymology

bot +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)

Noun

botter (plural botters)

1. (Internet) One who operates a bot (automated software process).
   • 2008, New Scientist (volume 200, issues 2682-2688, page 28)

     It is estimated by industry and leading botters that only around 1 in 10 players using bots make a profit, mainly in low-stakes games.

Anagrams

• bettor

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Afrikaans

Etymology 1

From Dutch boter.

Alternative forms

• boter

Noun

botter (plural botters, diminutive bottertjie)

1. (uncountable) butter; a soft, fatty foodstuff made from the cream of milk
2. butter type

   Ons het 'n klomp gegeurde botters beskikbaar.

   We have a lot of flavoured butter [types]/butters available.

3. (chemistry, dated) butter; any specific soft substance

Derived terms

• bebotter
• kookbotter
• plaasbotter

Verb

botter (present botter, present participle botterende, past participle gebotter)

1. to butter; to spread butter

Etymology 2

Botter (Dutch fishing vessel).

From Dutch botter.

Noun

botter (plural botters, diminutive bottertjie)

1. a type of Dutch fishing vessel with a characteristic hull

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French

Etymology

From botte (“boot”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.te/

• Audio

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Verb

botter

1. to kick
2. (slang) to please, to like

   Ça te botterait d'aller au ciné?

   Would you like to go the cinema?

Usage notes

In the sense please it functions syntactically like plaire, viz. it takes an indirect object and may be translated into English as like, exchanging the subject and object.

Conjugation

Conjugation of botter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	botter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bottant /bɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		botté /bɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	botte /bɔt/	bottes /bɔt/	botte /bɔt/	bottons /bɔ.tɔ̃/	bottez /bɔ.te/	bottent /bɔt/
	imperfect	bottais /bɔ.tɛ/	bottais /bɔ.tɛ/	bottait /bɔ.tɛ/	bottions /bɔ.tjɔ̃/	bottiez /bɔ.tje/	bottaient /bɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	bottai /bɔ.te/	bottas /bɔ.ta/	botta /bɔ.ta/	bottâmes /bɔ.tam/	bottâtes /bɔ.tat/	bottèrent /bɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	botterai /bɔ.tʁe/	botteras /bɔ.tʁa/	bottera /bɔ.tʁa/	botterons /bɔ.tʁɔ̃/	botterez /bɔ.tʁe/	botteront /bɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	botterais /bɔ.tʁɛ/	botterais /bɔ.tʁɛ/	botterait /bɔ.tʁɛ/	botterions /bɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	botteriez /bɔ.tə.ʁje/	botteraient /bɔ.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	botte /bɔt/	bottes /bɔt/	botte /bɔt/	bottions /bɔ.tjɔ̃/	bottiez /bɔ.tje/	bottent /bɔt/
	imperfect2	bottasse /bɔ.tas/	bottasses /bɔ.tas/	bottât /bɔ.ta/	bottassions /bɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	bottassiez /bɔ.ta.sje/	bottassent /bɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	botte /bɔt/	—	bottons /bɔ.tɔ̃/	bottez /bɔ.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Synonyms

• (please): plaire

Derived terms

• botter en touche

Further reading

• “botter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Norman

Etymology

botte (“boot”) +‎ -er

Verb

botter

1. (Jersey) to boot