Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boutiquey

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bou-tiquey
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or characteristic of a boutique (fashionable shop).

Informal

Example Sentences

"Maybe some shoppers will look at the store and be turned off by the boutiquey feeling, and they won't wander inside."
"In hip-hop terms this is chicken feed, but Mos Def isn’t Jay-Z, and the gig had a long profile within certain influential strata: a boutiquey show in New York’s most beautiful theater, preceded by weeks of positive chatter."
"But I don't know anything about real estate and location and boutiquey shops out there. I don't go out there."
"With Watt at sea two weeks out of four, studying part-time for his captain’s papers, and Dickie busy brewing “nice, boutiquey, hop-infused beers” in Derbyshire, the two school friends got together when they could."

Etymology

From boutique + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: boutique

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more boutiquey (comparative) most boutiquey (superlative)

Questions

What does boutiquey mean?: Resembling or characteristic of a boutique (fashionable shop).
Where does boutiquey come from?: From boutique + -y.

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