floaty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfləʊti/
ipa: /ˈfloʊti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
rhymes: -əʊti
Forms: form: floaties
form: floatie
Etymology: From float (noun) + -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns).
Senses: examples: text: Why don't you stop slathering millions of things on your face, and lather up with my gentle Swan? It's the loveliest, pure, mild floatie—why, it'll get you clean as a baby!
ref: 1945 September 24, “Memos to Mama from Baby and Swan [advertisement]”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, volume 19, number 13, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:
text: I have always loved the way he just walks up and feels free to drink out my glass or bottle of water. I admit, when he was a baby I tried to give him his own sippy cup and avoid the little ‘floaties’ that little ones leave in your drink. But if there was no sippy cup available, I fished out the floaties and drank it anyway.
ref: 2002, Trena Cole, “The Baby Factory”, in Charred Souls: A Story of Recreational Child Abuse, Indianapolis, Ind.: Oberpark Publishing, →ISBN, page 29:
text: If I dip my Oreos into milk, once the Oreos are gone I can't drink the milk with the floaties in it no matter how much milk is left.
ref: 2011, Judy Reiser, “Assorted Nuts”, in Admit It, You’re Crazy! Quirks, Idiosyncrasies, and Irrational Behavior, New York, N.Y.: Katalin Media, →ISBN:
text: Ha, try backpacking sometime mister, we drink water that has dirt in it … I mean literally there is dirt in our water bladders (or other floaties like leaves) and we drink it no problem!
ref: 2012, Michael Thomas, Joy Thomas, The Quest For The Cold Soda: A Couple’s Journey on the Appalachian Trail, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 163:
glosses: A particle of food, etc., found floating in liquid.
examples: text: I am going to begin with a confession that seems to me to be startling less for its content than for the sheer number of similar stories that I have heard related among so many of my successful women friends. Prevalent as it is, it always surfaces abruptly, bobbing awkwardly as a lone yellow floatie in the public pool of our conversations.
ref: 1998, Debra Shukles, “Weighing in as a Feminist”, in Rosamund Else-Mitchell, Naomi Flutter, editors, Talking Up: Young Women’s Take on Feminism, Melbourne, Vic.: Spinifex Press, →ISBN, page 71:
text: My best friend just may be the Florida champ of floatie racing. Or she at least has the Cape Canaveral title. She pushed the flamingo floatie to the opposite end of the pool in record time. I come in a distant second, as usual. This, after my best efforts to use my ginormous floatie to bump her off course, splashing us both.
ref: 2019, Alyssa Milano, with Debbie Rigaud, chapter 2, in Project Middle School (Hope; 1), New York, N.Y.: Scholastic, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: A lilo (inflatable air mattress) or similar object that floats on water and can be lain or sat on.
examples: text: As an escaped megalodon swims close to a busy beach, we see humanity at its most chompable: chubby kids in floaties, doofuses on pontoons, some dork in a tight Speedo rolling around in one of those big inflatable Zorb balls. But alas, the movie is a gore-free PG-13, and though CGI has long since replaced animatronics as the monster movie's weapon of choice, one thing hasn’t changed: giant killer fish still look like they’re made of rubber.
ref: 2018 August 8, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Jason Statham fighting a giant shark should be a lot more fun than The Meg”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2023:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
synonyms: word: armfloat
word: water wing
word: armband
extra: (“one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim”)
glosses: Synonym of armband (“one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim”).
Coordinate terms: floater