Boating vs Goating - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between boating and goating

is that boating is the activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat while goating is a scapegoating.

is that boating is while goating is .

the activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat

* 1853 , Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe (volume 1, page 95)

I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings .

(historical) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

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(en noun)

A scapegoating

An event at a fraternal organization, derived from scapegoating

* 1898 , The Sigma Chi Quarterly: The Official Organ of the Sigma Chi Fraternity , page 135

The field has been worked over very thoroughly and the spring " goatings " will not be very numerous.

* p.'' 1905 , ''Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal , page 345

With soirees, parties, germans and goatings , our time has passed away only too quickly

* 1912 , Caduceus of Kappa Sigma , page 420

Balls', teas, goatings and baseball games follow one another in rapid succession.

* 1999 , Susan Tyler Hitchcock, The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History , page 108

Phi Delta Phi, staged annual "goatings ," in which students caricatured professors mercilessly.

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