duckfluff

Noun

duckfluff (uncountable)

1. (rare) Down from a duck.
   • He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over him.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
   • Then, as if he sensed her watching him, or maybe because he caught a glimpse of movement behind the glass, he jumped down with both feet and came barreling — with a large portion of white hair sticking up like duckfluff from a cowlick on his forehead — toward the long, low porch of the store.1995, Deborah Bedford, Chickadee, →ISBN, page 47