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boaty en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈbəʊti/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈboʊti/ (General-American)

Etymology

From boat + -y (diminutive suffix).

Meanings

1. (colloquial) Relating to boats.
   • We compromised by calling it a geyesmeyer, a word coined by a boaty friend of ours, and used quite profusely by him to describe anything from a bilge-pump to a rhinoceros. 1950 December, Motor Boating, volume 86, number 6, page 20:
   • Passengers, they meant, not hands. But I found the mistake charming in a boaty kind of way. They were the real thing, these sailors, with salty New England accents and what might have been called coarse manners in a nineteenth-century novel. 2006, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, The Ice Cave:

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