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duck-arsed en · ADJ
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(UK, qualifier:indelicate; sometimes insulting; indelicate; sometimes insulting, slang, vulgar) Having or pertaining to broad hips and large, bulging buttocks.
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. 178All 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:
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(UK, informal) Having or pertaining to a hairstyle of the type called a duck's arse.
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