Dictionary

otterish en · ADJ

Etymology

From otter + -ish.

Meanings

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.
   • That didn't change the silence of early evenings when I lay in bed and listened to the smaller branches of my favorite oak tree scrape gently against the house outside my window while a whippoorwill, which I always imagined for some reason as a small otterish animal, hooted softly against the approaching dark. 2009, C. Stephen Baldwin, Shadows Over Sundials: Dark and Light: Life in a Large Outside World, iUniverse, published 2009, →ISBN, page 2:
   • Forcing her clawed forepaws to be still, she tried to concentrate on the room, hampered by her otterish vision, with its different field of view and lack of color. 2001, Garth Nix, Lirael, Harper Trophy, published 2002, →ISBN, page 288:
   • His jovial, otterish, undergraduate, joshing decency was real, I decided, very country town, very West Australian. 2002, Bob Ellis, Goodbye Babylon: Further Journeys in Time and Politics, Viking, published 2002, →ISBN, page 475:

Forms

Synonyms

ottery · otterlike · lutrine