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单词 booth
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boothn.

Brit. /buːð/, /buːθ/, U.S. /buθ/
Forms: Middle English boþe, Middle English–1500s bothe, 1500s–1600s boothe, 1500s– booth. Also northernMiddle English–1500s buth(e, 1500s bouthe, bowthe, Scottish boithe, 1500s– Scottish buith.
Etymology: Middle English bōþe, bōthe, probably < Old Danish *bóð (modern Danish and Swedish bod booth, stall, shop = Old Icelandic búð feminine dwelling, < East Norse bóa = Icelandic búa to dwell. Compare Middle High German buode ‘hut, tent’, modern German bude ‘booth, stall’: perhaps also from East Norse. Some think the Germanic word to be adopted < Slavonic: compare Czech bouda, Polish buda, which are at least cognate.
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.

Etymology: < booth n.
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).
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