boaty
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- (colloquial) Relating to boats.
- 1950 December, Motor Boating, volume 86, number 6, page 20:
- 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.
- 2006, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, The Ice Cave:
- 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.
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