Etymologies
- Blend of boat and hotel (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Hockaday, an artist, conceived her "boatel" as a project for Flux Factory, a Queens-based art gallery.”
“The ship Hermes on the Vltava river which serves as a boatel for homeless people, offering shelter for a symbolic 20 crowns, has announced that in the course of the coming days it will take in homeless people free of charge and increase its capacity to 250 beds.”
“The authorities have urged people not to underestimate the risk and a boatel for the homeless on the Vltava river said it still had around 50 vacancies a night.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘boatel’.
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Fruits of Linguistic Invention
bananosecond, fruitylicious, appled, kiwiclock, boomorange, damsonic, pearforate, graspberry, squince, datelier, caroberate, plumpire and 143 more...
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boat phrases/words
how boat is used
boat basin, boat bed, boat bedding, boat-bone, boat bridge, boat chain, boat chock, boat cloak, boat club, boat cover, boat cradle, boat crew and 140 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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puzzlers
words learned from crossword puzzles
ott, ogee, ulee, aida, cleek, stlo, yser, eero, sniggle, nostrum, oxlip, agist and 32 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for boatel.
reesetee Not possible, apparently, because it's "vintage." :-P Jul 31, 2008
plethora It's a postcard... surely they could just put a fifty cent stamp on it, address it and mail it to you... Jul 31, 2008
reesetee Yep, my pals had the same arrangment with their speedboat. I was always glad I never owned one of the boats on the fourth (and top) shelf. Nerve-wracking watching them unshelve it. Jul 31, 2008
dontcry We kept our boat at a marina with a boatel -- but that referred to the giant shelves they stacked the boats on when they weren't in the water. When you wanted to use your boat, you called ahead and they put this monstrous forklift under your boat, lifted it off it's resting place on the shelf and placed it in the water! The boatel kept the bottom of your boat in good shape as it wasn't sitting in the water 24/7. Jul 31, 2008
reesetee Yes, it is. For a postcard! Jul 31, 2008
bilby Shipping's $1.50. Jul 31, 2008
reesetee Oh, but imagine the shipping & handling.... Sep 17, 2007
uselessness And I can buy it now for only $2.99! What a steal!!
....waitaminute.... Sep 17, 2007
trivet Why, yes. Sep 17, 2007
uselessness Do they sell these on eBay? Sep 17, 2007
reesetee Good grief. Sep 17, 2007
trivet Not just a boat, not just a hotel...
See here or here. Sep 17, 2007