Booty
['buːtɪ] or ['bʊti]
Definition
(n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
Edited by Debra
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Plunder (to be used for any purpose), spoil, pillage, PREY.
Typed by Erica
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Plunder, blackmail, loot, spoils, prey, pillage
ANT:Restitution, fine, confiscation, forfeiture, amercement, penalty
Typed by Darla
Definition
n. spoil taken in war or by force: plunder a prize.—To play booty to join with others in order to cheat one player to play a game with intention to lose.
Edited by Guthrie
Examples
- He made a raid on a neighboring baron and completed his outfit with the booty secured. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I should, therefore, ere now, have left this place; and I waited--not to share the booty, for, so help me God and Saint Withold! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Don't play booty with me. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He opened the package showing the books, somewhat to the disgust of the officer, who imagined he had caught a burglar sneaking away in the dark alley with his booty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You are playing Booty with my clerk, are you, Copperfield? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Besides, why shouldst thou think evil is to come to the girl, even if she became Bois-Guilbert's booty? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Five of 'em strung up in a row, and none left to play booty, or turn white-livered! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- When they had acquired any booty, they were eager to return home, and his authority was seldom sufficient to detain them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And to pay was added booty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is too like ourselves for us to make booty of him, since dogs should not worry dogs where wolves and foxes are to be found in abundance. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The prisoner I speak of is better booty--a jolly monk riding to visit his leman, an I may judge by his horse-gear and wearing apparel. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- With six men, and good hope of booty, if it please St Nicholas. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Typist: Michael