Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

otterish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ot-ter-ish
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.

Example Sentences

"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."
"His jovial, otterish, undergraduate, joshing decency was real, I decided, very country town, very West Australian."
"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."

Etymology

From otter + -ish.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: otter

Inflected Forms

more otterish (comparative) most otterish (superlative)

Synonyms

lutrine otterlike ottery

Questions

What does otterish mean?: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.
Where does otterish come from?: From otter + -ish.

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