BOOTY
NOUNS
1016 ► FANG booty, plunder, spoils; that which is caught or taken → obs. exc. Sc.
1300 ► WAITH booty, spoil; game for or obtained by hunting; spoil of the chase → Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs.
1330 ► WAIN booty, spoil; conquest, possession gained by conquest → obs.
1425 ► SPREATH booty, plunder, spoil → Sc. obs.
1450 ► BUTIN booty, spoil, plunder → obs.
1473 ► GAIN booty, prey, spoil → obs.
1507 ► SPULYIE spoil, booty, plunder → Sc. arch.
1530 ► BUTE booty, plunder → obs.
1598 ► BOOT booty; spoil; plunder → obs.
1609 ► SACKAGE booty, plunder → obs.
1676 ► GAME booty; the proceeds of a robbery → UK sl.
L17.. ► EARNEST a share of the booty → UK criminals’ sl.
L17.. ► RUM QUIDDS → RUM QUIDS a large booty; a great share of spoil → cant
L18.. ► SLAP booty, the proceeds of a robbery → sl., chiefly Anglo-Irish usage
1818 ► CREAGH booty, prey
1828 ► REGULARS shares of a booty → thieves’ sl.
L19.. ► SPLIT the division of criminal spoils → sl.
20C.. ► PEEL-OFF illicit removal of part of a common booty → police & criminals’ sl.
20C.. ► SWAG booty, plunder → sl.
1903 ► RAFF booty → sl. (Bk.)
1903 ► RAFFLE booty → sl. (Bk.)
1903 ► RENT booty, plunder → cant (Bk.)
1903 ► RIFF-RAFF booty → sl. (Bk.)
1904 ► SCAFF booty, spoil, anything found by scrounging and appropriated → Sc.
1911 ► BOOTING booty, prize → Sc. (Bk.)
1918 ► MAKE booty; the proceeds of theft; loot → US criminals’ sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
1530 ► BUTESMAN a person who shares booty or plunder with another → Sc. obs.
VERBS
1016 ► FANG to seize upon booty; to catch, to apprehend, to get into one’s power; to capture a city; to seize lands or possessions → obs.
1325 ► PREY to take booty or plunder; to commit pillage → obs.
1600 ► BUTE to make booty of something; to share something taken as booty or plunder → Sc. obs.
L17.. ► TIP ONE THEIR EARNEST to hand out a share of the booty → UK criminals’ sl.
M19. ► RAKE to divide loot → UK criminals’ sl.
1904 ► STUN OUT OF THE REGULARS to swindle a man of his share of booty → thieves’ sl. (Bk.)
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