Citations:otterish

English citations of otterish

Adjective: "of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter"

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• 1985, Alan Dean Foster, The Paths of the Perambulator, Open Road Integrated Media (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  He compensated for these deficiencies with typically unflagging otterish energy.

• 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Little, Brown and Company (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Hal is sleek, sort of radiantly dark, almost otterish, only slightly tall, eyes blue but darkly so, and unburnable even w/o sunscreen, his untanned feet the color of weak tea, his nose ever unpeeling but slightly shiny.

• 2000, Bucky McMahon, "He Was Dogman", Islands Magazine, December 2000:

  Part rottweiler, part doberman, part pit bull, part buddha, she was always a great recruiter, a wriggling, otterish advertisement for the fun of the jaunt.

• 2001, Garth Nix, Lirael, Harper Trophy (2002), →ISBN, page 288:

  Forcing her clawed forepaws to be still, she tried to concentrate on the room, hampered by her otterish vision, with its different field of view and lack of color.

• 2002, Bob Ellis, Goodbye Babylon: Further Journeys in Time and Politics, Viking (2002), →ISBN, page 475:

  His jovial, otterish, undergraduate, joshing decency was real, I decided, very country town, very West Australian.

• 2003, Philip Lopate, Getting Personal: Selected Essays, Basic Books (2003), →ISBN, page 111:

  I waited for her to turn and notice me — she was talking to an otterish-looking young Korean whose television-blue shirt with white collar somehow rubbed me the wrong way — they were dallying like cousins.

• 2005, Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days, Picador (2006), →ISBN, page 164:

  He raced by her cubicle, stuck his small, otterish head in.

• 2006, Kim McLarin, Jump at the Sun, Harper (2007), →ISBN, page 157:

  In the first pew the college president sat nodding in his seal-gray morning suit, his otterish wife slick beside him in a blue feathered hat and white opera gloves.

• 2008, Jim Norton, I Hate Your Guts, Simon Spotlight Entertainment (2008), →ISBN, page 161:

  The worst part about him, including his moist otterish face and obesity, was his breath.

• 2009, C. Stephen Baldwin, Shadows Over Sundials: Dark and Light: Life in a Large Outside World, iUniverse (2009), →ISBN, page 2:

  That didn't change the silence of early evenings when I lay in bed and listened to the smaller branches of my favorite oak tree scrape gently against the house outside my window while a whippoorwill, which I always imagined for some reason as a small otterish animal, hooted softly against the approaching dark.

• 2011, Karen Russell, Swamplandia!, Vintage Books (2011), →ISBN, page 349:

  Sawtooth smoothed a finger over his otterish whiskers.

• 2012, Charles de Lint, Under My Skin, Razorbill (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  “Yeah. But she's probably only calling herself that for her blog. It could be anything. She might be on the surf team. Has anyone been acting differently? Kind of, I don't know. Otterish?”

  “That's her animal shape?” Desmond asks. “An otter?”