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duckish

duckish adjective: characteristically resembling a duck; somewhat ducklike.

Adjective

duckish (comparative more duckish, superlative most duckish)

  1. 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.2011, Walter Hopp, Perception and Knowledge

Noun

duckish (uncountable)

  1. (Newfoundland) 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 […]1986, Gary L. Saunders, Rattles and steadies: memoirs of a Gander River man, page 80

Synonyms of duckish

Forms of duckish

comparativemore duckish
superlativemost duckish

Origin of duckish

From duck + -ish.

Questions about duckish

What does duckish mean?
Duckish means characteristically resembling a duck; somewhat ducklike.
What part of speech is duckish?
Duckish can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near duckish in the dictionary

  1. ducking off
  2. ducking out
  3. ducking stool
  4. ducking stools
  5. duckings
  6. duckish
  7. duckism
  8. duckkind
  9. duckless
  10. ducklessness
  11. ducklet

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