botts
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English
Etymology
Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag 'maggot'
Noun
botts (uncountable) (often with definite article)
- The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse.
- (by extension) Infection by maggots under the skin of cows, or by sheep maggots in the frontal sinus of sheep.