different between goaty vs boaty

English

From goat +? -y.

goaty (comparative goatier, superlative goatiest)

Like a goat, goatlike or redolent of goats.
- 2011, Sue Riedl, "Seriously, you need to try this goat cheese," The Globe and Mail, 29 November, 2011, [2]
  It’s high in butterfat and protein, and low in bacteria (which is what can give goat cheeses a goaty, barnyard taste).

boat +? -y

boaty (comparative more boaty, superlative most boaty)

(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.

From French boîte.

boaty

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