booby hutch

noun

A clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the eastern part of England.

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Meanings

nounbooby hutch (plural booby hutches)

plural booby hutches

  1. historicalA clumsy covered carriage or seat, used in the eastern part of England.

    There is something humiliating in the idea of getting into a one-horse booby hutch.

    1888, Robert Smith Surtees, Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire : a Tale of Country Life
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