different between botty vs boaty

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?ti/

Etymology 1

Clipping of bottom +? -y.

Noun

botty (plural botties)

1. (childish, slang) bottom

Synonyms

• ass
• bum
• butt
• See also Thesaurus:buttocks

Etymology 2

bot +? -y

Noun

botty (plural botties)

1. (informal, rare, computing) A term of address for a bot (automated software process).

   Bye bye, botty.

Adjective

botty (comparative more botty, superlative most botty)

1. (informal, rare, computing) Resembling a bot (automated software process); botlike.

   That email seemed pretty botty; it probably shouldn't be trusted.

Etymology 3

Compare boot, booting for shoot, shooting

Noun

botty (plural botties)

1. (MLE, slang) Alternative form of shotty, alternative form of dotty (“shotgun”).

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