Etymology

bytime

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Today it means: A period of leisure; spare time Full definition →

Scots bytime
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  1. Scots · borrowed frombytime
  2. English todaybytime

From Scots bytime, equivalent to by- + time.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.