"otterish" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more otterish [comparative], most otterish [superlative]
Etymology: From otter + -ish. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|otter|ish}} otter + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} otterish (comparative more otterish, superlative most otterish)
  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter. Synonyms: lutrine, otterlike, ottery
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          "ref": "2002, Bob Ellis, Goodbye Babylon: Further Journeys in Time and Politics, Viking, published 2002, →ISBN, page 475:",
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          "ref": "2009, C. Stephen Baldwin, Shadows Over Sundials: Dark and Light: Life in a Large Outside World, iUniverse, published 2009, →ISBN, page 2:",
          "text": "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.",
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