Where does “booty chaser” come from?

booty chaser (English) comes from English booty, from English boot, from French botte, from Italian botta, from Italian bottare, from French bouter, from Middle French bouter, from Old French bouter — to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to...

booty chaser (English): A lascivious or promiscuous man

Definitions

  1. A lascivious or promiscuous man

Ancestry of “booty chaser”, step by step

booty chaser traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English booty

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbootyA form of prize which, when a ship was captured...
2EnglishbootA heavy shoe that covers part of the leg; A blow...
3Frenchbotteboot; something resembling a boot; oppression
4Italianbottablow, hit, shock, knock, attack
5Italianbottare
6Frenchbouterto push; to remove flesh from the skin of an...
7Middle Frenchbouterto pull
8Old Frenchbouterto strike; to hit; to place; to put; to enter
9Frankishbautanto push, strike, beat; to hit, strike; to hit,...
10Proto-West Germanicbautanto beat
11Proto-Germanicbautanąto beat, push
12Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰewd-to hit, strike; to beat, push; to strike, push,...
13Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰew-to grow, swell; to swell, wax, grow; to blow; to...

via English chaser

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishchaserA person or thing that chases; A hunter; A...
2EnglishChasefrom a nickname for a hunter
3Frenchchâssereliquary; coffin
4Middle Frenchchasse
5Old Frenchchacehunt; inflection of chacer: ## first/third-person...
6Old Frenchchacierto hunt, to go hunting
7Latincaptiāreto hunt
8Latincaptuscaptured, having been captured, seized, having...
9Latincapiōto take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm
10Proto-Italickapiōtake
11Proto-Italickapjōtake, seize
12Proto-Indo-Europeankh₂pyéti
13Proto-Indo-Europeankeh₂p-to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰew-