different between boate vs boaty

English

Noun

boate (plural boates)

1. Obsolete spelling of boat

Anagrams

• Beato, Tae Bo, TaeBo

Latin

Verb

bo?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of bo?

Portuguese

Etymology

From French boîte (“nightclub”, literally “box”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bo.?a.t??i/, /bu.?a.t??i/
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): /bo.?a.t??i/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /bo.?a.te/
  • (Carioca) IPA^(key): /bu.?at??/

Noun

boate f (plural boates)

1. nightclub (establishment that is open late at night)

   Synonym: clube noturno

2. discotheque (a dance hall / club / party place)

   Synonym: discoteca

Further reading

• “boate” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

English

Etymology

boat +? -y

Adjective

boaty (comparative more boaty, superlative most boaty)

1. (colloquial) 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.

Malagasy

Etymology

From French boîte.

Noun

boaty

1. carton