# botts

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #95,757

## Definitions
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.

## Etymology
Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag 'maggot'

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/botts