Boaty Post

[Das_Boot]

As promised.

To all those pendants out there. Is boaty the diminutive of boat. It has been worrying me for a while now as I am wary of using diminutives. I prefer to use the word children while deploring the use of words such as kiddies.

So if you can help is it
a little boaty..... or.... a bit boaty?

By the way my spellchecker does not like boaty it prefers booty do I need a new spellchecker?

 

[iangrant]

Re:Not Boaty Post

You have submitted a wordy post. Praps you might try here next time:
wordy forum



Ian

 

[Das_Boot]

Re:Not Boaty Post

Sounds like obseques Michael Howard allways obfuscating or prevaricating never quite answering the question.

 

[snowleopard]

Wrong on all counts.

Booty is not a small boot, it's ill-gotten gains. A small boot is a bootee.

So a small boat is a boatee, or a wee boatie north of the border. Boaty is therefore what's sold at a boat jumble.

Next question?

 

[jhr]

Dunno about Boaty, but I just googled "Booty" and got some interesting definitions:

1. pirate treasure, plunder or other ill-gotten gains

2. butt, ass, specifically female posterior

3. sex

4. cr*p

All from UrbanDictionary.com

No further questions, M'Lud.............

 

[Das_Boot]

Is there realy such a word as boaty I dont have a dictionary at work?

My spellcheker keeps on throwing up Booty when I type in Boaty.

 

[iangrant]

Re:Not Boaty Post

Na, straight answer booty old chap..the other website is more applicable.

A boaty post is about boats your questions are about words..

Example boat question:
How much sail can my 22 foot boat cary in a force 4?

Example non boat question:
How can we steer this post toward the booty anti-Conservative political opinion?


Ian

 

[Beagle]

[ QUOTE ]
Is there realy such a word as boaty I dont have a dictionary at work?

[/ QUOTE ]

The exercise is simple, even for a person such as myself who's mothertongue is not the wonderfull English language. Enter the word "boaty" in Google, hit enter and if there's a result.... it excists! QED, quite simple, common sence an all.... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Das_Boot]

Re:Not Boaty Post

Booty can also be the vernacular for You Booty spoken in a New York accent or is that taking it a bit far.

Anyway my plan has been foiled.

 

[iangrant]

Re:Not Boaty Post

You booty is used in East Anglia to describe a pretty turkey...


Ian

 

[Das_Boot]

Re:Not Boaty Post

Just done the Google thing. That is no guarantee. I hope you havent been using that method to learn to spell. You should join the conservatives.

 

[longjohnsilver]

Pendants??!!

Surely you mean pedants? Plenty of those here /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[cameronke]

Re: Pendants??!!

I was going to ask that John,

But did not want to appear pedantic. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

So would something that flaps in a breeze be described as pendantic? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Regards
Cameron /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

Re: Pendants??!!

Pendants! This should be posted on the MOBO forum.

 

[Riggy]

Re:Not Boaty Post

[ QUOTE ]
Booty can also be the vernacular for You Booty spoken in a New York accent or is that taking it a bit far.

Sorry Das_Boot but that didn't emanate from New York. 'Booty' (or beauty) has been part of the Cornish (and Devon) dialect for many centuries. As in 'all right me booty?' (beauty)....'all right me (h)'andsome'

 

[Rustyknight]

When I was growing up, a booty was when our shoes or wellies got filled with water whilst playing in puddles and streams...... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Cornishman]

Re: Pendants??!!

More likely pennantic, don't you think? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Sybarite]

Re: Pendants??!!

"...promise to forget this fellow - to illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory."

(Mrs Malaprop).

 

[bob_tyler]

Re:Not Boaty Post

[ QUOTE ]
Sounds like obseques Michael Howard always obfuscating or prevaricating never quite answering the question.

[/ QUOTE ]

Surely T Bliar squirming when asked to publish Advocate General's advice over legality of Iraq war?

 

[Evadne]

Re: Boaty definition

That's the great thing about the English Language, a slight change in spelling or pronunciation gives you a completely different inference.
Just remember:
Boaty : Cap'n Pugwash
Booty : Cap'n Jack Sparrow
Boater: Hooray Henry
Bootie: Kylie Minogue

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