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boaty

UK/ˈbəʊti/US/ˈboʊti/

boaty adjective: relating to boats.

Adjective

boaty (comparative more boaty, superlative most boaty)

  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

boaty meaning in Tamil

boaty in Tamil

அட்டைப்பெட்டி

Forms of boaty

comparativemore boaty
superlativemost boaty

Origin of boaty

From boat + -y (diminutive suffix).

Phrases with boaty

Words that rhyme with boaty

Questions about boaty

What does boaty mean?
Boaty means relating to boats.
What is boaty in Tamil?
Boaty in Tamil is அட்டைப்பெட்டி. See Boaty meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is boaty?
Boaty is an adjective.
How do you pronounce boaty?
Boaty is pronounced /ˈbəʊti/ (UK).

Words near boaty in the dictionary

  1. boatwise
  2. boatwoman
  3. boatwomen
  4. boatwright
  5. boatwrights
  6. boaty
  7. Boaty McBoatface
  8. Boaty McBoatfaced
  9. Boaty McBoatfaces
  10. Boaty McBoatfacing
  11. boatyard

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: boaty (page history and authors); boaty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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