Toaty vs Boaty - What's the difference?
toaty | boaty |
Relating to boats.
* 1950 , Motor Boating (volume 86, number 6, December 1950, page 20)
* 2006 , Lucy Jane Bledsoe, The Ice Cave
As adjectives the difference between toaty and boaty
is that toaty is (scotland) while boaty is relating to boats.boaty
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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.