botter

bot +‎ -er

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑtɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒtə/
• Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)

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.

• botherder
• botmaster

• bettor

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.tər/

From a dialectal variant of Dutch boter, from Middle Dutch bōter, from Old Dutch *butera, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτυρον (boúturon).

• boter

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

• bebotter
• kookbotter
• plaasbotter

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

1. to butter; to spread butter

From Dutch botter.

botter (plural botters, diminutive bottertjie)

1. a type of Dutch fishing vessel with a characteristic hull (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.tər/

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Botter (Dutch fishing vessel).

Uncertain. Perhaps an action noun from bot (“flounder”) +‎ -er after a type of fish fished for with the vessel, or from bot (“blunt”) from the characteristic shape of its bow.

botter m (plural botters, diminutive bottertje n)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

botter

1. Comparative form of bot

From botte (“boot”) +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.te/

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botter

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

   Synonym: plaire

   Ça te botterait d'aller au ciné?

   Would you like to go the cinema?

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.

• botter en touche
• botter le cul
• botter les fesses

• “botter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

botte (“boot”) +‎ -er

botter

1. (Jersey) to boot