bumboats
Meaning of bumboats
plural noun
a small vessel carrying provisions for sale to moored or anchored ships.
late 17th century: from bum2 + boat. The term originally denoted a scavenger's boat removing ships' refuse, often also bringing produce for sale.
Information about bumboats
- It is a name.
- The singular form of bumboats is: bumboat.
- Languages in which bumboats is used:
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Hyphenation of bumboats
bum-boats
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- bumboats is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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