boatien.
/ˈbəʊti/, U.S. /ˈboʊdi/ colloquial.
1. Originally and chiefly Scottish. A (small) boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > small vessel > small boat
nacelle1483
cockle boata1625
peasecod-boat1657
boatie1788
monkey boat1813
dinky1849
cockle1857
sea-boat1909
1788 Aberdeen Mag. 28 Aug. 536 (heading) The favourite Song of The Boatie Rows.
1829 New Sc. Haggis 50 Week after week and month after month passed away, doubts and fears were hinted at, for the safety of ‘the Boaty’.
1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 101 Children cried out in ecstasy at sight of the two ‘boaties’—barquettes.
1910 Living Age Apr. 23/2 Yon Scorpion chiel in his boatie below was none sae dee-finite in his signalling as I could ha'e wushed.
2009 V. Bennett Queen's Lover xxvii. 397 Don't want to go if I can't take my ship!.. Want to play with my boatie!
2.
a. Originally English regional (northern). A person who works or lives on a boat; a boatman.Attested earliest as a nickname.In later use sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 2b.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > boatman or waterman
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waterman1439
boatsman1512
water rat1600
water snake1609
battoe man1756
boathand1821
boatie1826
water-jack1828
floatman1882
river rat1884
1826 Manch. Guardian 16 Apr. Wm. Abernathy, better known by the name of ‘Boatie’. He was the oldest rod fisher upon the Dee.
1898 Eng. Dial. Dict. I. 317/2 Boaty, a canal-boat man.
1899 C. M. David Funafuti xv. 190 When a ‘boatie’ goes out on a fishing expedition and brings back a boat-load,..the fish is equally divided among the various families.
1930 Bookman Aug. 306/1 When she determines to move with the times and substitute steam for horses, all the ugly passions of the ‘boaties’ are aroused.
1971 L. Beckwith About my Father's Business (1973) xiii. 162 On Saturday nights the ‘boaties’, as we called the people from the canal barges, surged colourfully into town.
2004 D. Morrissey Reef (2006) 184 I'm a boatie on the fishing charters.
b. Originally Australian and New Zealand. A person who sails, rows, or pilots a boat, esp. for pleasure; a boating enthusiast. Frequently in plural. Cf. yachtie n.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > boatman or waterman > boating enthusiast
boatie1962
1962 Austral. Women's Weekly 24 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/1 Boaties, members of a surf club boat crew.
1975 Turangi (N.Z.) Chron. 2 Apr. 1/1 The weed has only assumed importance with the increase in the number of boaties using the area.
1985 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 18 May 1 Yachties, boaties and junk owners will have to dig deeper into their pockets following the Government's increase in pleasure boat mooring charges.
1988 Sydney Morning Herald 5 Jan. 9/6 It is the boaties, those men who ride the big waves in the old wooden surf boats, who they say are the maddest.
1992 Independent 22 Feb. 4/4 Many undergraduates dismiss the rowers as ‘boaties’.
2004 L. Hughes Biggest Boat I could Afford xii. 138 Every boatie has to constantly search for places to dinghy ashore and do shopping or sightseeing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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