daffy duck
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.66 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
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.
Example Sentences
- "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."