From houseboat + -er.
houseboater (plural houseboaters)
- One who lives in a houseboat.
2008 April 8, Nonny De La Pe, “What’s Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish”, in New York Times[1]:A similar situation unfolded two decades ago in Sausalito, Calif., when houseboaters were inundated with toadfish calls.
