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but and ben en · ADV

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) In the inner and outer parts of a building
   • to live but and ben

but and ben en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (Scotland) A two-roomed cottage; a small house or shack
   • Whether the old lady had caught cold the time she moved, or whether her ailing frame had been simply worn out, she never seemed to thrive after leaving the little but and ben she had so long lived in. 1898, Elizabeth Grant, Memoirs of a Highland Lady, Canongate, published 1995, page 339:
   • It was no more than a butt and a ben, with a rickle of sheds behind it where old Pooty kept his cow and a bit donkey that was nearly as old as himself […] 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 30: