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boatish

boatish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a boat.

Adjective

boatish (comparative more boatish, superlative most boatish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a boat.
    • Uncle Hansel and I left the apartment and got into his boatish car.1996, Francesca Lia Block, Dragons in Manhattan

Forms of boatish

comparativemore boatish
superlativemost boatish

Origin of boatish

From boat + -ish.

Questions about boatish

What does boatish mean?
Boatish means resembling or characteristic of a boat.
What part of speech is boatish?
Boatish is an adjective.

Words near boatish in the dictionary

  1. boaties
  2. boating
  3. boatings
  4. boation
  5. boations
  6. boatish
  7. boatkeeper
  8. boatkeepers
  9. boatlength
  10. boatlengths
  11. boatless

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