BOOTY (apparently influenced by " boot," O. Eng. bot, ad-vantage or profit, through an adaptation from an earlier form cognate with Ger. Beute and Fr. butin)

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BOOTY (apparently influenced by " boot," O. Eng. bot, ad-vantage or profit, through an adaptation from an earlier form cognate with Ger. Beute and Fr. butin) ,

plunder

PLUNDER

or gain. The phrase " to

play

PLAY

booty

BOOTY (apparently influenced by " boot," O. Eng. bot, ad-vantage or profit, through an
adaptation
- ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)
from an earlier form cognate with Ger. Beute and Fr. butin)

," dating from the 16th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a
division
- DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)
of a
hundred
- HUNDRED
men)

, means to

play

PLAY

into a confederate's hands, or to play intentionally badly at first in

order

ORDER
ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis,
rank
- rent
  - RENT
  _mod_rang.html">RANK (O.Fr. rant or
  rent
  - RENT
  , mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)
, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
ORDER, HOLY

to deceive an opponent.

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