Daffy Duck

English Etymology From en daffy duck. The character first appeared in the short Porky's Duck Hunt (1937). Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Daffy Duck.wav Southern England Proper noun Daffy Duck en often attributive 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. en Feb 12, 1989 Coots-Feathered Variety-Draw Curses, Gunfire in Orange County Los Angeles Times A coot-covered lake looks something like a Daffy Duck convention. en 1993 Vernon Lionel Shetley John Ashbery's Difficulty After the Death of Poetry 127 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. en Feb 8, 1996 Dallas Morning News Me, I just kind of moved along in a Daffy Duck shuffle. en 1996 Joseph R. Garber Vertical Run 30 His inner voice, his guardian angel sneered in a Daffy Duck voice, Of courth you realithe thith meanth war en 2000 Gene Brewer K-PAX 243 "Yeth thir?" in his Daffy Duck voice. I thought: He's been hanging around Milton too long en Nov 10, 2000 Recount is the talk of the town San Diego Union-Tribune "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. Derived terms en Daffy Duck offense Translations comic duck Basque: eu Lukas Ahatea Catalan: ca Ànec Daffy Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 達菲鴨 Dáfēi Yā Czech: cs Kačer Daffy Danish: da Daffy And Dutch: nl Daffy Duck Finnish: fi Repe Sorsa French: fr Daffy Duck Galician: gl Pato Lucas German: de Daffy Duck Hungarian: hu Dodó kacsa Icelandic: is Oddur Önd Indonesian: id Daffy Bebek Italian: it Daffy Duck Japanese: ja ダフィー・ダック Dafī Dakku Korean: ko ^대피 ^덕 Macedonian: mk Паторот Дачо m Marathi: mr डॅफी डक Norwegian: no Daffy Duck Polish: pl Kaczor Daffy Portuguese: pt Patolino m Romanian: ro Rățoiul Daffy Russian: ru Да́ффи Дак Serbo-Croatian: sh Patak Darko, sh Patak Dodo Croatia, sh Patak Dača Serbia Spanish: es Pato Lucas m Swedish: sv Daffy Anka Turkish: tr Arsız Daffy Further reading Example of Daffy Duck voice at YouTube en terms derived from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies en American fiction Fiction Fictional characters Norwegian Bokmål nb: Etymology From nb en Daffy Duck. Pronunciation nb /ˈdɑfiː.dʉk/ nb ʉk nb Daf fy Duck Proper noun nb proper noun nb cartoon en Daffy Duck One of the Warner Bros. cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic black-feathered duck is known for his lisp. nb American fiction Fictional characters Television