Synonyms for booty

Grammar : Noun

Spell : boo-tee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbu ti

Définition of booty

Origin : "plunder, gain, profit," mid-15c., from Old French butin "booty" (14c.), from a Germanic source akin to Middle Low German bute "exchange." Influenced in form and sense by boot (n.2) and in form by nouns ending in -y. Meaning "female body considered as a sex object" is 1920s, black slang.

noun loot

Example sentences :

The greater the number of thieves, the smaller each portion of booty.
Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr

The creature comes to the tree by night, inserts his paw, and grasps his booty.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

However, they were unwilling to relinquish the booty which they had planned to seize.
Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various

The customer is robbed of it by two scoundrels who quarrel over the booty.
Extract from : « The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales » by Arthur Conan Doyle

As soon as the plunderers saw them, they left their booty and took to flight.
Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon

Here they halted seven days while they disposed of their booty by sale.
Extract from : « Anabasis » by Xenophon

Great as is our booty, there is still more to be had there for the taking.
Extract from : « Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer » by Cyrus Townsend Brady

The booty was divided among the London merchants, as had been agreed upon.
Extract from : « Queen Elizabeth » by Jacob Abbott

They left her there as a rallying point for the boats, and to receive the booty.
Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

I am terrified to linger here, lest I be boarded and the booty discovered.
Extract from : « The Frozen Pirate » by W. Clark Russell

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