A hooded sleigh.
1766. A very neat Booby-Hutch to be sold cheap for Cash.—Boston-Gazette, Dec. 29.
1767. A close Sley or Bubby Hutch.—Id., Feb. 2. (This is corrected a week later to Booby Hutch.)
1812. The subscriber thanks all those “who have favoured him with painting their Booby Hutts and Sleighs.”—Boston-Gazette, Dec. 7.
1812. He has on hand, for sale, a number of Booby Huts and Carriages.—Id., Dec. 28.
1813. The Subscriber has one Booby Hut only for sale. That Booby Hutt, if correctly informed, was built at Hatchett’s Coach Ware House, Long Acre, London, 110 years since.—Id., Jan. 18.
1846. Some of the ladies of the wealthy classes [in Boston] are seen in the very cold weather driving about in a covered conveyance, enclosed partly with glass; it is a monstrously grotesque-looking affair, and its name is worthy of the appearance; it is called a “Booby-hut.”—Eliot “Warburton, ‘Hochelaga,’ ii. chap. vi.
1888. They collided with Crowley’s booby hack, knocking the horse down.—Boston Daily Globe, n.d. (Farmer).
