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ottery

ottery adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.

Adjective

ottery (comparative more ottery, superlative most ottery)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.
    • Anyone who has watched, for example, a litter of otter cubs rolling about in an ottery tangle can hardly doubt that they're really having fun.1991, BBC Wildlife, page 236
    • […] this guy she's seen before with the . . . ferret? or mongoose? ... an ottery thing, whatever, on a clothesline leash. . . .1996, Albert Goldbarth, Adventures in Ancient Egypt: Poems, Ohio State University Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 23

Proper noun capitalized: Ottery

Ottery

  1. The local name of Ottery St Mary.
  2. A river in Cornwall, England, which joins the River Tamar; in full, the River Ottery.

Synonyms of ottery

Forms of ottery

comparativemore ottery
superlativemost ottery

Origin of ottery

From otter + -y.

Presumably from Old English oter + ēa (“otter river”)

Phrases with ottery

Questions about ottery

What does ottery mean?
Ottery means of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.
What part of speech is ottery?
Ottery can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near ottery in the dictionary

  1. Otterspool
  2. Ottersweier
  3. Ottertail
  4. ottertaur
  5. Otterton
  6. ottery
  7. Ottery St Mary
  8. Ottesen
  9. Ottesens
  10. Otteson
  11. Ottesons

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