单词 | booth |
释义 | boothn. 1. a. A temporary dwelling covered with boughs of trees or other slight materials. archaic in general sense. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] hulka1000 boothc1200 hull?c1225 lodge1290 hottea1325 holetc1380 tavern1382 scalea1400 schura1400 tugury1412 donjon?a1439 cabinc1440 coshc1490 cabinet1579 bully1598 crib1600 shed1600 hut1637 hovela1640 boorachc1660 barrack1686 bothy1750 corf1770 rancho1819 shanty1820 kraal1832 shelty1834 shackle1835 mia-mia1837 wickiup1838 caboose1839 chantier1849 hangar1852 caban1866 shebang1867 humpy1873 shack1878 hale1885 bach1927 jhuggi1927 favela1961 hokkie1973 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 185 Ðar haueð elch patriarche, and prophete, and apostles..maked faier bode [for boðe] inne to wunien. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 441 He bowed vnder his lyttel boþe. a1536 W. Tyndale Briefe Declar. Sacraments in Wks. (1848) I. 376 He had made booths, or houses of boughs for his beasts. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 851 A Boothe or place couered, where men sitte to talke for recreation. 1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii. 179 Every bush is something's booth. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 40 At the North end they led into booths, and summer-houses. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 196 Others cut down Branches of Trees, and built us two large Booths. 1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xiii. 174 Temporary booths, made of intertwisted palm, olive..and willows from the brook. b. esp. A temporary structure covered with canvas, or the like; a tent. Now chiefly as in 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [noun] telda900 field houseOE saleOE pavilionc1225 comelc1275 pallionc1300 tentoura1325 tentc1325 holetc1380 hileta1382 tabernacle1382 cabin?a1400 hale?a1400 tentory1412 logis1477 booth1535 ordu1673 toldo1839 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings vii. 10 We came to the tentes of the Sirians, and beholde, there is no man there..but..the bothes as they stonde. 1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland xiv. 71 That certain boothes and sheds be provided. 1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 30 Obliged to assemble in a booth to drink tea and chocolate. 1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor xxxii. 112 A wild country covered..with the black booths of these wanderers [sc. Turcomans]. 1838 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 4 July in Amer. Notebks. (1972) iii. 171 Town much thronged; booths on the Common, selling gingerbread, sugar-plums, and confectionary. c. polling-booth: a temporary structure for voting purposes at a parliamentary or other election. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > registering or casting votes > polling-station or booth polling placec1710 poll booth1781 polling booth1805 polling station1817 voting booth1826 polling-booth1837 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iv. ii. 234 The booths are erected at the joint expense of the candidates; but..it is enacted, that no booth erected for a county election is to exceed 45l. 2. spec. a. A covered stall at a market; a tent at a fair, or the like, for the sale of wares or refreshments, exhibition of the feats of jugglers, etc. See also tollbooth n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] shopOE boothc1175 cheaping-boothc1175 stall1377 standinga1387 crame1477 bower1506 stand1551 loge1749 market stall1827 kiosk1865 joint1927 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15573 Ne birrþ ȝuw nohht min faderr hus Till chepinng boþe turrnenn. c1300 K. Alis. 3457 They..brenten townes, and bothes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 46 Boþe, chapmannys schoppe. 1483 Cath. Angl. 49 A Buthe, emptorium. 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 1015 Ane laidlie lurdan loun, Cumde to break buithis. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 852 A boothe [1580 Bouthe] or tente, that any occupier maketh in a fayre or other places. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 271 A denne of Theeves ? a Bowthe of brothells? c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1735) 227 Unruly Servants broke up the Merchants' Booths. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 16 To pay at her going into the Booth to see a Show. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) The Luckenbooths of Edinburgh, wooden shops [which formerly stood in the High Street]. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 350 The booths where goods were exposed to sale projected far into the streets. b. = telephone booth n. at telephone n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone booth call box1877 telephone box1878 call office1882 call room1882 pay station1888 telephone booth1888 public telephone1889 phone box1890 telephone kiosk1890 phone booth1904 coin-box1906 box1922 kiosk1928 booth1930 phone kiosk1955 paybox1975 1930 Bell System Techn. Jrnl. 9 i. 12 A form of booth furnished by the telephone companies, provided with a seat and with lighting. 1952 A. Baron With Hope, Farewell 95 He stood in the booth, fumbling with his notebook to find the telephone number. Compounds booth-cloth, booth-keeper, †booth-mail (= boothage). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [noun] > other parts of tents booth-cloth1552 side pocket1761 mudwalling1905 bell end1919 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > market dues > [noun] > for stall, stand, or accommodation stallagea1387 pickage1405 pitching1500 stallenge1509 booth-mail1552 hallage1607 gantellage1611 pitching pence1670 boothage1695 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > stall-keeper booth-keeper1838 stall-keeper1842 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Boothclothes, wherwith boothes or tentes ben couered. c1570 Ld. Sempill 3 Taverners To pay my buith-mail and my stand. 1838 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 4 July in Amer. Notebks. (1972) iii. 171 Booth-keepers knocking down the temporary structures. Draft additions September 2017 booth capturing n. Indian English a method of interfering with the process of an election whereby members of a particular party occupy a polling booth, excluding and voting in place of those people who are registered to vote there. ΚΠ 1972 Times of India 21 Apr. 3/2 A Congress member..expressed concern at the growing practice of booth-capturing during elections. 1987 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 30 May 851/1 Armed bodyguards gradually took the shape of armed militia which was being increasingly used during elections for booth-capturing. 2010 B. G. Verghese First Draft xi. 349 Efforts had been made to educate the voters, ensure correct and complete electoral rolls, prevent rigging and booth capturing and also to keep the role of money power down to a minimum. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). boothv. rare. transitive. To provide or shelter with a booth. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > afford accommodation to (of place) lodgec1449 receive1552 booth1594 house1759 hive1812 roost1838 1594 Zepheria xxxii. sig. E4v She booths her fair with shade of broad-branched trees. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.c1175v.1594 |
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