Definitions

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  • noun New Zealand A convenience store.

Etymologies

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supermarket and -ette

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Examples

  • Subsequent owners utilized the property as a "superette" and a piano studio.

    Postbulletin.com Local News 2010

  • At the superette in our village, I saw this charming advertisement for a bed-and-breakfast.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • At the superette in our village, I saw this charming advertisement for a bed-and-breakfast.

    gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • “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

  • At the superette in our village, I saw this charming advertisement for a bed-and-breakfast.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • At the superette in our village, I saw this charming advertisement for a bed-and-breakfast.

    gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Either way, he still makes it in time to court the ladies at the superette.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • Either way, he still makes it in time to court the ladies at the superette.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • Either way, he still makes it in time to court the ladies at the superette.

    flou - French Word-A-Day 2007

  • 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.

    After All, This Is Mexico 2006

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  • A Kryptonian chorus girl, perhaps?

    September 26, 2008

  • Hmm. Sounds . . . possible. *thinking*

    Note: See lecturette for the rest of the conversation. :-)

    September 26, 2008

  • What, exactly, is a "superette"?

    September 27, 2008

  • Isn't it like a convenience store? A mini-supermarket?

    September 27, 2008

  • 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

  • Such a silly word I'm inclined to like it.

    September 29, 2008

  • This is what convenience stores were called in the 1930s.

    June 16, 2009