boothette
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…]plaintiff was in boothette-type telephone on sidewalk outside drugstore when automobile suddenly jumped over the curb and sidewalk and crushed her against steel pipe and brick wall;"
- "A motorist may drive up to the phone, which is housed in a plastic boothette, drop in a coin or two, and make a call without leaving his car. The walk-up public telephone is the same type of boothette mounted on a slightly higher pedestal and is located where it can readily be seen and used by pedestrians."
- "[…]Company tried public reaction to its initial placement of a new type outside telephone booth along the boulevard (page 44, The American City, April 1960). The result: excellent. The attractiveness of the colorful boothettes and the additional pedestrian traffic on Hollywood Boulevard have produced an additional source of revenue[…]"
- "The only equipment we took, sir, is our equipment, our boothette, pay phone, and wire."
- "Even if Southern Bell did owe its customers a duty of some type to furnish a reasonably safe place to use the telephone, it is clear that such a duty does not extend to the repair of a defective post located five feet from the boothette."
- "Newly designed telephone boothette"
Etymology
From booth + -ette.