motorboat

See also: motor boat

English

Etymology

motor +‎ boat

Alternative forms

• motor boat

Noun

Wikipedia

motorboat ‎(plural motorboats)

1. (nautical) Any vessel driven by an engine (either inboard or outboard), but especially a small one.

See also

• powerboat
• speedboat

Translations

boat driven by an engine

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩托船 (zh) ‎(mótuōchuán), 汽艇 (zh) ‎(qìtǐng), 汽船 (zh) ‎(qìchuán)

• Danish: motorbåd c
• Dutch: motorboot (nl) m, f
• Faroese: motorbátur m
• Finnish: moottorivene (fi)
• French: canot automobile m
• German: Motorboot (de) n
• Hungarian: motorcsónak (hu)

• Japanese: モーターボート ‎(mōtābōto)
• Korean: 모터보트 ‎(moteoboteu)
• Macedonian: моторен чамец m ‎(mótoren čámec)
• Maori: rōnohi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: motorbåt m

  Nynorsk: motorbåt m

• Portuguese: lancha (pt) f
• Russian: outboard engine: мото́рная ло́дка f ‎(motórnaja lódka); inboard engine: ка́тер (ru) m ‎(káter)
• Swedish: motorbåt c

Verb

motorboat ‎(third-person singular simple present motorboats, present participle motorboating, simple past and past participle motorboated)

1. (slang) To place one's head between a woman's breasts and make the sound of a motorboat with one's lips whilst moving the head from side to side.