Boaty

//ˈbəʊti// adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to boats. colloquial

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From boat + -y (diminutive suffix).

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