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Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck proper noun: a fictional anthropomorphic black duck in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons by Warner Bros., with a distinctive lisping voice and zany behavior.

Proper noun

Daffy Duck

  1. (attributive, often) A fictional anthropomorphic black duck in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons by Warner Bros., with a distinctive lisping voice and zany behavior.
    • A coot-covered lake looks something like a Daffy Duck convention.1989 February 12, “Coots-Feathered Variety-Draw Curses, Gunfire in Orange County”, in Los Angeles Times
    • This closing section sports a number of inversions (e.g., "bivouac we") reminiscent of the verbal habits of the Daffy Duck voice, yet this ending seems very different in tone from the broadly ironic opening.1993, Vernon Lionel Shetley, “John Ashbery's Difficulty”, in After the Death of Poetry, page 127

Daffy Duck meaning in Marathi and Indonesian

Daffy Duck in Marathi

comic duck
डॅफी डक ḍĕphī ḍak

Daffy Duck in Indonesian

comic duck
Daffy Bebek

Examples of Daffy Duck in a sentence

  • Me, I just kind of moved along in a Daffy Duck shuffle.1996 February 8, Dallas Morning News:
  • His inner voice, his guardian angel sneered in a Daffy Duck voice, Of courth you realithe thith meanth war[…]1996, Joseph R. Garber, Vertical Run, page 30:
  • "Instead of a lame-duck Congress," Wilson lamented, "it's a Daffy Duck election." Edward Bodge said it is time to do away with the Electoral College.2000 November 10, “Recount is the talk of the town”, in San Diego Union-Tribune:

Origin of Daffy Duck

From daffy + duck. The character first appeared in the short Porky's Duck Hunt (1937).

Words formed from Daffy Duck

Questions about Daffy Duck

What does Daffy Duck mean?
Daffy Duck means a fictional anthropomorphic black duck in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons by Warner Bros., with a distinctive lisping voice and zany behavior.
What is Daffy Duck in Marathi?
Daffy Duck in Marathi is डॅफी डक (ḍĕphī ḍak). See Daffy Duck meaning in Marathi.
How do you use Daffy Duck in a sentence?
Me, I just kind of moved along in a Daffy Duck shuffle.
What part of speech is Daffy Duck?
Daffy Duck is a proper noun.

Words near Daffy Duck in the dictionary

  1. daffodowndilly
  2. Daffron
  3. Daffrons
  4. daffs
  5. daffy
  6. Daffy Duck
  7. Daffy Duck offense
  8. Daffy Ducks
  9. daffydowndillies
  10. daffydowndilly
  11. daffynition

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