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otterish

otterish

English

Adjective

otterish (comparative more otterish, superlative most otterish)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.
    • 2001, Garth Nix, Lirael, Harper Trophy (2002), ISBN 0060278234, page 288:
      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.
    • 2002, Bob Ellis, Goodbye Babylon: Further Journeys in Time and Politics, Viking (2002), ISBN 9780670040827, page 475:
      His jovial, otterish, undergraduate, joshing decency was real, I decided, very country town, very West Australian.
    • 2009, C. Stephen Baldwin, Shadows Over Sundials: Dark and Light: Life in a Large Outside World, iUniverse (2009), ISBN 9781440157172, page 2:
      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.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:otterish.

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