duckfluff

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English

Etymology

From duck +‎ fluff.

Noun

duckfluff (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Down from a duck.
    • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J B Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
      He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over him.
    • 1995, Deborah Bedford, Chickadee, →ISBN, page 47:
      Then, as if he sensed her watching him, or maybe because he caught a glimpse of movement behind the glass, he jumped down with both feet and came barreling — with a large portion of white hair sticking up like duckfluff from a cowlick on his forehead — toward the long, low porch of the store.
    • 2000 -, Christina L. Sheil, Letting Go, →ISBN, page 23:
      With a groan, Tristan rolled out of bed, his soft blond hair sticking up like duckfluff.
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