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duck-arsed

duck-arsed adjective: having or pertaining to broad hips and large, bulging buttocks.

Adjective

duck-arsed (comparative more duck-arsed, superlative most duck-arsed)

  1. (UK, slang, vulgar, indelicate, sometimes insulting) Having or pertaining to broad hips and large, bulging buttocks.
    • All the girls, with the exception of May Callan, were squat, and as the country phrase had it—"duck-arsed." They were made for work, for breeding.1949, Patrick Kavanagh, Tarry Flynn: A Novel, Devin-Adair Co., page 78
    • I'm delighted that you should admire Beecham. A pompous little duckarsed bandmaster who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.1963, John Fowles, The Collector, Pan Books paperback ed. (1965), p. 178
  2. (UK, informal) Having or pertaining to a hairstyle of the type called a duck's arse.

Forms of duck-arsed

comparativemore duck-arsed
superlativemost duck-arsed
alternative formduck arsed
alternative formduckarsed

Questions about duck-arsed

What does duck-arsed mean?
Duck-arsed means having or pertaining to broad hips and large, bulging buttocks.
What part of speech is duck-arsed?
Duck-arsed is an adjective.

Words near duck-arsed in the dictionary

  1. duck's-foot
  2. duck's-meat
  3. duck, duck, goose
  4. duck, duck, gray duck
  5. duck, duck, grey duck
  6. duck-arsed
  7. duck-bill
  8. duck-bill cat
  9. duck-bill cats
  10. duck-billed
  11. duck-billed cat

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