Daffy Duck

English

Etymology

The first appearance of the character was in the short Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937; from daffy +‎ duck.

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／达菲鸭 (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, Patak Dodo (Croatia), Patak Dača (Serbia)
• 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”, in 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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English Daffy Duck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑfiː.dʉk/
• Rhymes: -ʉk
• Hyphenation: Daf‧fy‧Duck

Proper noun

Daffy Duck

1. (cartoon) Daffy Duck (One of the Warner Bros. cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic black-feathered duck is known for his lisp.)