Etymology

bumboat

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Today it means: A small boat used for carrying provisions to ships lying at anchor in a harbour. Full definition →

Dutch bomschuit
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The story

  1. Dutch · derived frombomschuit“small fishing boat”
  2. English todaybumboat

From Dutch bomschuit (“small fishing boat”) + boat.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.