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Boaty vs Bolty - What's the difference?

boaty | bolty |

As an adjective boaty

is {{cx|colloquial|lang=en}} Relating to boats.

As a noun bolty is

an edible fish of the Nile (genus genus: Chromis).

boaty

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to boats.
  • * 1950 , Motor Boating (volume 86, number 6, December 1950, 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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    bolty

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bulti

    Noun

    (bolties)
  • An edible fish of the Nile (genus (taxlink)).
  • (Webster 1913)