different between steamboat vs motorboat

English

Etymology

steam +? boat

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?stim?bo?t/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sti?m?b??t/

Noun

steamboat (countable and uncountable, plural steamboats)

1. A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.

   Synonyms: steamer, steamship

   • 1870, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 3.

     By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.

2. (uncountable, Singapore, Malaysia) Hot pot (Chinese dish).

Derived terms

• Steamboat Springs

Descendants

• ? Dutch: stoomboot (calque)

Translations

Verb

steamboat (third-person singular simple present steamboats, present participle steamboating, simple past and past participle steamboated)

1. To travel by steamboat.

Further reading

• steamboat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• boat mates, boatmates

English

Alternative forms

• motor boat

Etymology

motor +? boat

Pronunciation

Noun

motorboat (plural motorboats)

1. (nautical) Any vessel driven by an engine (either inboard or outboard), but especially a small one.

Translations

See also

• powerboat
• speedboat

Verb

motorboat (third-person singular simple present motorboats, present participle motorboating, simple past and past participle motorboated)

1. (slang) To press one's face between a woman's breasts.
   • 2013, "19 Most Lustable Celebs", VIBE, April/May 2013, page 84:

     You're blind to the blue Pacific water and glaring sun as your entire face is buried in Sofia's bosom—you're motorboating on a motorboat!

   • 2013, "Breast cancer awareness gone too far", The Daily Athenaeum (West Virginia University), 25 October 2013, page 4:

     Other promotional events, such as “No Bra” day or the “motorboating girls for breast cancer awareness” campaign, also take things a little too far.

   • 2015, Jill Sorenson, Shooting Dirty, unnumbered page:

     Tiffany put her hands on Janelle's hips and motorboated her breasts.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:motorboat.