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duckish

adj

Etymology

From duck + -ish.

  1. derived from *dwōg-✻
  2. derived from *dōkaz✻
  3. derived from *dōk✻
  4. derived from *dōc✻
  5. derived from doeck
  6. borrowed from doek
  7. suffixed as duckish — “duck + ish”

Definitions

  1. Characteristically resembling a duck

    Characteristically resembling a duck; somewhat ducklike

    • We are quite plainly conscious that the “ears” of the rabbity figure are identical with the “bill” of the duckish figure, that the slight notch on the back of the duckish figure's “head” is the “mouth” of the rabbity figure.

  2. Dusk.

    • […] robins, hitch sparrows, whitethroats, chickadees, all kinds of them singing their hearts out. They would keep at that until the sun came up and then slack off. And then again at duckish, if it was a civil evening, you'd hear them […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for duckish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA