Daffy Duck en · PROPN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From daffy + duck. The character first appeared in the short Porky's Duck Hunt (1937).
Meanings
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(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.
"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:"Yeth thir?" in his Daffy Duck voice. I thought: He's been hanging around Milton too long
2000, Gene Brewer, K-PAX, page 243: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: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: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:
Deriveds
Translations (29)
ko 대피 덕 (comic duck) · id Daffy Bebek (comic duck) · hu Dodó kacsa (comic duck) · pt Patolino (comic duck) · ca Ànec Daffy (comic duck) · tr Arsız Daffy (comic duck) · da Daffy And (comic duck) · ro Rățoiul Daffy (comic duck) · mr डॅफी डक (comic duck) · ru Да́ффи Дак (comic duck) · no Daffy Duck (comic duck) · eu Lukas Ahatea (comic duck) · de Daffy Duck (comic duck) · is Oddur Önd (comic duck) · pl Kaczor Daffy (comic duck) · it Daffy Duck (comic duck) · mk Паторот Дачо (comic duck) · fi Repe Sorsa (comic duck) · nl Daffy Duck (comic duck) · cmn 達菲鴨 /达菲鸭 (comic duck) · fr Daffy Duck (comic duck) · gl Pato Lucas (comic duck) · sv Daffy Anka (comic duck) · ja ダフィー・ダック (comic duck) · es Pato Lucas (comic duck) · sh Patak Dodo (comic duck) · cs Kačer Daffy (comic duck) · sh Patak Dača (comic duck) · sh Patak Darko (comic duck)