Meaning of Daffy Duck | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

attributive, often

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Examples

“A coot-covered lake looks something like a Daffy Duck convention.”

“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.”

“Me, I just kind of moved along in a Daffy Duck shuffle.”

“His inner voice, his guardian angel sneered in a Daffy Duck voice, Of courth you realithe thith meanth war[…]”

“"Yeth thir?" in his Daffy Duck voice. I thought: He's been hanging around Milton too long”

“"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.”

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