Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. New Zealand A convenience store.
Etymologies
- supermarket and -ette (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Subsequent owners utilized the property as a "superette" and a piano studio.”
““See something you like?” he asks when he catches me staring; this is the vernacular of my school days, the dialect of Brooklyn kids, the kind of thing you have to know your audience to say, the kind of thing that brings you back to sneaking cigarette drags behind the superette on Avenue U.”
“Either way, he still makes it in time to court the ladies at the superette.”
“At the superette in our village, I saw this charming advertisement for a bed-and-breakfast.”
“The way they are carrying on there in our office, as they nonchalantly prepare their lunches of sopas or dried instant pasta bought from the nearest Colosso superette, turns into an exercise in applied linguistics.”
“This turned out to be a combination superette and counter restaurant serving Venezuelan specialties.”
“He circled the block and parked across the street from the little corner grocer that had expanded into a three-storefront superette.”
“We went down to the Pig Stand for a couple of catfish poboys, then walked across to the little superette, bought a cheap Styrofoam ice chest, ice, and enough Diet Coke, Charrnin, and sandwich stuff to last a couple of days.”
“Tonight's Winning Wheel ticket was sold at ASH's superette in Waitakere.”
“They also bought alcohol and other items from a liquor store and superette in Tripoli Rd,”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘superette’.
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For Your Convenience
Names for convenience stores, as inspired by this BoingBoing post. As in, "I'm going to the ______ to grab some milk and a pack of smokes."
corner store, bodega, party store, jiffy store, コンビニ, mama shop, package store, deli, tendita, vacita, pitzuchiya, makolet and 50 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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Jumbo Shrimp
A list of classic oxymorons (using the term loosely). Named after my brother's favorite.
jumbo shrimp, fine mess, plastic glasses, plastic silverware, working vacation, alone together, head butt, new classic, adult children, baby grand, constant change, almost exactly and 191 more...
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MIX DES CULTURES
french words & english ones
des mots français & d'autres anglaisà gogo, tchétchène, faciès, déviant, gamin, superette, grigri, diantre, in jeopardy, syncope, primrose, menthe and 92 more...
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Because I Said So, That's Why
Giving in and adding my meager madeupical contributions to the many excellent meologism Wordie lists. In a vague attempt at organization, I've also included introduced terms that (as far as I know)...
wordtacular, madeupical, plutotater, subsession, madeupatory, crappuccino, wordification, hitlery channel, wordsomnia, wordie mystique, wordie funs language, girlygiggle and 113 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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I've Been Cornobbled!
From Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader:
"You won't find these archaic words in most dictionaries, but take our word for it--they're real. And just for fun, try to use them in a ...hobberdehoy, faffle, dasypygal, cornobble, collieshangie, wem, calcographer, bodewash, twiddlepoop, liripoop, leptorrhinian, bridelope and 61 more...
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simple & useful4
solemnize, decipherable, imaginarily, loftily, brusquely, explication, ogles, regalia, tenaciousness, wrong-headedness, iniquitous, solitudinarian and 84 more...
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tbtabby This is what convenience stores were called in the 1930s. Jun 16, 2009
bilby Such a silly word I'm inclined to like it. Sep 29, 2008
reesetee Yes, precisely. It's a tiny yet large store for buying groceries that are really more like snacks.
Seriously, I never could figure out that place--although it was far more "ette" than "super." Sep 29, 2008
chained_bear Isn't it like a convenience store? A mini-supermarket? Sep 27, 2008
jennarenn What, exactly, is a "superette"? Sep 27, 2008
reesetee Hmm. Sounds . . . possible. *thinking*
Note: See lecturette for the rest of the conversation. :-) Sep 26, 2008
pterodactyl A Kryptonian chorus girl, perhaps? Sep 26, 2008