Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck

English

Etymology

The first appearance of the character was in the short Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937.

Proper noun

Daffy Duck

1. A fictional anthropomorphic black duck in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons by Warner Bros.

Translations

comic duck

Basque: Lukas Ahatea Catalan: Ànec Daffy Chinese: Mandarin: 達菲鴨 (Dáfēi Yā) Czech: Kačer Daffy Danish: Daffy And Dutch: Daffy Duck Finnish: Repe Sorsa French: Daffy Duck Galician: Pato Lucas German: Daffy Duck Hungarian: Dodó kacsa Icelandic: Oddur Önd Indonesian: Daffy Bebek Italian: Daffy Duck Japanese: ダフィー・ダック (Dafī Dakku) Korean: 대피 덕 (Daepi Deok) Macedonian: Паторот Дачо m (Patorot Dačo) Marathi: डॅफी डक (ḍĕphī ḍak) Norwegian: Daffy Duck Polish: Kaczor Daffy Portuguese: Patolino m Romanian: Rățoiul Daffy Russian: Да́ффи Дак (Dáffi Dak) Serbo-Croatian: Patak Darko (Croatia), Patak Dodo (Croatia) Spanish: Pato Lucas m Swedish: Daffy Anka Turkish: Arsız Daffy

Noun

Daffy Duck (plural Daffy Ducks)

1. (usually used attributively) A duck, comical especially for lisping voice or zany behavior.
   • 1987 October 7, “HERE'S FRESH NEWS: EVERTHING IS JUST DUCKY AT OREGON”, in Dallas Morning News:

     At Utah, the Utes are sporting a Daffy Duck offense. The linemen come out of the huddle and go to one side of the field. A wide receiver snaps to the quarterback...

   • 1989 February 12, “Coots-Feathered Variety-Draw Curses, Gunfire in Orange County”, in Los Angeles Times:

     A coot-covered lake looks something like a Daffy Duck convention.

   • 1993, Vernon Lionel Shetley, "John Ashbery's Difficulty", After the Death of Poetry, page 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.

   • 1996 February 8, Dallas Morning News:

     Me, I just kind of moved along in a Daffy Duck shuffle.

   • 1996, Joseph R. Garber, Vertical Run, page 30:

     His inner voice, his guardian angel sneered in a Daffy Duck voice, Of courth you realithe thith meanth war […]

   • 2000 November 10, “Recount is the talk of the town”, in 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.

   • 2000, Gene Brewer, K-PAX, page 243:

     "Yeth thir?" in his Daffy Duck voice. I thought: He's been hanging around Milton too long

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Translations

a comical duck

Further reading

• Example of Daffy Duck voice at YouTube