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Goaty vs Boaty - What's the difference?

goaty | boaty |

As adjectives the difference between goaty and boaty

is that goaty is like a goat, goatlike or redolent of goats while boaty is relating to boats.

goaty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Like a goat, goatlike or redolent of goats.

    • 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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