booty

Meaning

Noun

• A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once.
• Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy.
• Something that has been stolen or illegally obtained from elsewhere.
• The buttocks.
• A person considered as a sexual partner or sex object.
• sexual intercourse.
• the vulva and vagina.
• Alternate spelling of bootee

Origin

• From Middle English buty, botye, bottyne, from Old French butin, botin, from Middle Low German bǖte, of obscure origin, but related to Middle High German biute, German Beute. Possibly ultimately from Gaulish *boudi, from Proto-Celtic *boudi.
• Probably an alteration of botty. Possibly influenced by booty (etymology 1).
• From boot.