botts

See also: Botts

English

Etymology

Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag 'maggot'

Noun

botts (uncountable) (often with definite article)

1. The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse.
2. (by extension) Infection by maggots under the skin of cows, or by sheep maggots in the frontal sinus of sheep.

See also

• botfly
• myiasis