Definitions
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- noun New Zealand A
convenience store .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Subsequent owners utilized the property as a "superette" and a piano studio.
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At the superette in our village, I saw this charming advertisement for a bed-and-breakfast.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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At the superette in our village, I saw this charming advertisement for a bed-and-breakfast.
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“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.
Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010
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At the superette in our village, I saw this charming advertisement for a bed-and-breakfast.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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At the superette in our village, I saw this charming advertisement for a bed-and-breakfast.
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Either way, he still makes it in time to court the ladies at the superette.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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Either way, he still makes it in time to court the ladies at the superette.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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Either way, he still makes it in time to court the ladies at the superette.
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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.
pterodactyl commented on the word superette
A Kryptonian chorus girl, perhaps?
September 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word superette
Hmm. Sounds . . . possible. *thinking*
Note: See lecturette for the rest of the conversation. :-)
September 26, 2008
jennarenn commented on the word superette
What, exactly, is a "superette"?
September 27, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word superette
Isn't it like a convenience store? A mini-supermarket?
September 27, 2008
reesetee commented on the word superette
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."
September 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word superette
Such a silly word I'm inclined to like it.
September 29, 2008
tbtabby commented on the word superette
This is what convenience stores were called in the 1930s.
June 16, 2009