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English
Etymology 1
From duck + -ish.
Adjective
duckish (comparative more duckish, superlative most duckish)
- Characteristically resembling a duck; somewhat ducklike
2011, Walter Hopp, Perception and Knowledge:We are quite plainly conscious that the “ears” of the rabbity figure are identical with the “bill” of the duckish figure, that the slight notch on the back of the duckish figure's “head” is the “mouth” of the rabbity figure.
Etymology 2
Noun
duckish (uncountable)
- (Newfoundland) Dusk.
1986, Gary L. Saunders, Rattles and steadies: memoirs of a Gander River man, page 80:[…] robins, hitch sparrows, whitethroats, chickadees, all kinds of them singing their hearts out. They would keep at that until the sun came up and then slack off. And then again at duckish, if it was a civil evening, you'd hear them […]
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References
- George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson (1990) Dictionary of Newfoundland English, page 158