different between boaty vs booty

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

English

Alternative forms

• bootyn (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bu?ti/
• Rhymes: -u?ti

Etymology 1

From Middle English buty, botye, bottyne, from Old French butin, botin, from Middle Low German b?te (“distribution, exchange, loot”), of obscure origin, but related to Middle High German biute, German Beute (“booty”). Possibly ultimately from Gaulish *boudi, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“profit, gains; victory”).

Noun

booty (countable and uncountable, plural booties)

1. (nautical) A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once.
2. Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:booty
3. (figuratively) Something that has been stolen or illegally obtained from elsewhere.

Related terms

• boodle

See also

• manubial

Translations

Coordinate terms

• loot

Etymology 2

Probably an alteration of botty. Possibly influenced by booty (etymology 1).

Noun

booty (plural booties)

1. (slang) The buttocks.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks
2. (vulgar, slang, not countable) A person considered as a sexual partner or sex object.
3. (vulgar, slang) sexual intercourse.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation

4. (vulgar, slang) the vulva and vagina.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From boot.

Noun

booty (plural booties)

1. Alternative spelling of bootee