Botts

These larvæ are also found in the stomachs of horses, whom they sometimes destroy; another species of them adhere to the anus of horses, and creep into the lowest bowel, and are called botts; and another species enters the frontal sinus of sheep, occasioning a vertigo called the turn. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

He even has a special name for fuzz balls: boo botts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As part of this discussion on the TALO list, botts came up with a great fear list: ❋ Bill Kerr (2006)

But these are the words they use to charm away the botts in horses. ❋ Various (N/A)

"He's got the botts -- drench him for the botts," another prescribed. ❋ George W. Ogden (N/A)

This remedy is perfectly safe, and is the only certain cure for botts under the sun. ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)

Yes! gentlemen, "addressing the attentive cowboys," I can cure anything that touches the ground -- biped, quadruped, or centipede -- glanders, botts, greased hoofs, heaves, blind staggers, it makes no odds. ❋ A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton (N/A)

The moment the glass touches the botts though they may have eaten their way into the coats of the stomach, so that but a small portion is exposed, they will let go their hold, will pucker up and be driven off by the bowels. ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)

This may be relied on as a certain and safe remedy for botts in horses. ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)

But put me in front of Celia Tennant, and I simply make a sort of gurgling noise like a sheep with the botts. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Rumour had it that the future held no mysteries for her, and it was known that she could cure warts, bruised fingers, and even the botts by means of spells. ❋ Unknown (1928)

The animal which had the privilege of making history by conveying me and _The Girl who Waited_ to the Briggs Theatre was asthmatic, and, I think, sickening for the botts. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Presbyterian with a soaring soul is as cruelly beset as a wolf with fleas, a zebra with the botts. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Moore was greatly distressed and used bad language about the catastrophe; and after he had subsided a little Harden says, says he, "Now, Moore, if you say so, I'll cut open that horse and show you the botts, and I reckon that will settle it." ❋ Unknown (1903)

So Moore agreed to it, and when he was opened, and the botts began to cut their way out and worm around, ❋ Unknown (1903)

Watkinsville by asserting that all horses had botts in 'em, and it was accordin 'to nature and the botts were not a disease, and a horse never died on account of' em. ❋ Unknown (1903)

[FOOTNOTE 12: botts -- a parasitic intestation of the intestines of animals, especially horses, by larvae of the botfly] ❋ O. Henry (1886)

McWilliams 'saddle horse got the botts [12], he sent a buckboard ten miles for one of these strangers that claimed to be a botanist. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

While Jeffersonian purity and economy have seemed to rage with great virulence at Washington, in the northwest heaves and botts among horses and common, old-fashioned hollow horn among cattle have been the prevailing complaints. ❋ Bill Nye (1873)