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.

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Afrikaans

Etymology 1

From Dutch boter.

Alternative forms

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

French

Etymology

From botte (“boot”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɔ.te/
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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)
present participle bottant
/bɔ.tɑ̃/
past participle botté
/bɔ.te/
infinitive
simple botter
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple bottant
/bɔ.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
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 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).

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Derived terms

Further reading

Norman

Etymology

botte (“boot”) +‎ -er

Verb

botter

  1. (Jersey) to boot
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