What's the difference between booth and boothy?

Booth


Definition:

  • (n.) A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.
  • (n.) A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
  • (2) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
  • (3) Here's Rob Booth talking to me from there: Updated at 6.31pm BST 6.14pm BST Disappointment at the Ecuadorian embassy Outside the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge a handful of Assange supporters greeted the decision with disappointment.
  • (4) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
  • (5) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
  • (6) It is a fun place to stay, with pop-art-inspired design, a hairdresser, a photo booth and film nights.
  • (7) Paul Dryhurst, a relative, said she had been in the arena with her sister Claire Booth, 34 and Claire’s daughter Hollie, 11.
  • (8) John Londesborough Helsinki, Finland • We Finns are delighted to learn that Michael Booth is fond of us and would like us to rule the world.
  • (9) The slick advert, released this week, shows a young couple flirting at a polling site , before the woman grabs the man by the neck and pulls him into the election booth as heavy breaths accompany a techno soundtrack.
  • (10) In the course of showing us the "dark" side of Scandinavian life, Michael Booth writes that Finland is "burdened by taboos" about the civil war, second world war and cold war ( The dark heart of Scandinavia , 28 January).
  • (11) Dryhurst said the trio were walking in single file out of the arena when the blast struck, breaking Booth’s jaw and her daughter’s legs.
  • (12) Cherie Blair's sister Lauren Booth has a weekly programme, Remember the Children of Palestine.
  • (13) 2.46pm: Among the piles of new handsets littering the show booths of Barcelona, this new handset from Sagem caught our eye.
  • (14) Katharina Booth, chief of the sexual assault unit in the Boulder County district attorney’s office, which prosecuted the Wilkerson case, said she’s concerned about the “chilling effect” of the light sentences.
  • (15) But the party was left confused and damaged when the voting booths closed and both camps immediately made accusations of ballot fraud, trickery and irregularities, lodging complaints with the party's internal election monitoring body.
  • (16) But recognition is the key when people enter the voting booth.
  • (17) But here he is, arranged in a booth, a glass of Belgian beer before him.
  • (18) It also has “press for champagne” buttons in each booth – lethal when you’ve already had one too many.
  • (19) The musculoskeletal complaints are likely the result of bending, reaching, and leaning out of the toll booth.
  • (20) Voteman aims to get young people voting by slapping them around the chops, decapitating them, or simply hurling them into the voting booth like the shagging, lazy slackers they are.

Boothy


Definition:

  • (n.) See Bothy.
  • (n.) A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You should hear Boothy bang on about the Aussies, Dave.

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