boothette

B3O1O1T1H4E1T1T1E1

noun

A small booth.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounboothette (plural boothettes)

plural boothettes

  1. A small booth.

    Newly designed telephone boothette

    1971, This is Japan, page 197
    5 more examples

    […]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;

    1957, Personal Injury: Actions, Defenses, Damages, page 268

    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.

    1959, The Michigan Bell, page 42

    […]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[…]

    1960, The American City, page 99

    The only equipment we took, sir, is our equipment, our boothette, pay phone, and wire.

    1966, Invasions of Privacy (Government Agencies): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate, Eighty-Ninth Congress, Pursuant to S. Res. 39, S. Res. 190, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 1839

    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.

    1969, American Law Reports: Cases and Annotations, page 1430

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

boothette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boothette

MLA

“boothette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boothette. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boothette,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boothette.

Source: boothette on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.