otterish

English

Etymology

otter +‎ -ish

Adjective

otterish (comparative more otterish, superlative most otterish)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.
   • 2001, Garth Nix, Lirael, Harper Trophy, published 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, published 2002, →ISBN, page 475:

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

   • 2009, C. Stephen Baldwin, Shadows Over Sundials: Dark and Light: Life in a Large Outside World, iUniverse, published 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:otterish.

Synonyms

• lutrine, otterlike, ottery

Anagrams

• Theriots, orthites, shortite, theorist, thorites