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duckish en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From duck + -ish.

Meanings

  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:

Forms

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more duckish Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most duckish Degree=Sup lexicographic

duckish en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (Newfoundland, uncountable) 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

crepusculum · mirkning · dimmity