BOOTH, a temporary dwelling of boughs or other slight materials. The word gained the special meaning of a market-stall or any non-permanent structure, such as a tent at a fair, where goods were on sale. Later it was applied to the temporary structure where votes were registered, viz., polling-booth. As bothy or bothie, in Scotland, meaning generally a hut or cottage, the word was specially applied to a barrack-like room on large farms where the unmarried labourers were lodged.