botts

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

botts

Etymology

Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag 'maggot'

Related words

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