boaty
n.— «Perhaps unsurprisingly, he describes the nation’s welcome of “boat people” in the late 1970s as a positive development. “For a long time it was a pejorative term: ’You’re a boaty, right?'”» —“Those who’ve come across the sea” by Now Kim Huynh in Australian National University ANU Reporter (Canberra, Australia) Spring, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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