"Daffy Duck" meaning in English

See Daffy Duck in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: The first appearance of the character was in the short Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937; from daffy + duck. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|daffy|duck}} daffy + duck Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=Daffy Duck}} Daffy Duck
  1. A fictional anthropomorphic black duck in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons by Warner Bros. Categories (topical): American fiction, Fiction, Fictional characters Translations (comic duck): Lukas Ahatea (Basque), Ànec Daffy (Catalan), 達菲鴨 (Chinese Mandarin), 达菲鸭 (Dáfēi Yā) (Chinese Mandarin), Kačer Daffy (Czech), Daffy And (Danish), Daffy Duck (Dutch), Repe Sorsa (Finnish), Daffy Duck (French), Pato Lucas (Galician), Daffy Duck (German), Dodó kacsa (Hungarian), Oddur Önd (Icelandic), Daffy Bebek (Indonesian), Daffy Duck (Italian), ダフィー・ダック (Dafī Dakku) (Japanese), 대피 덕 (Daepi Deok) (Korean), Паторот Дачо (Patorot Dačo) [masculine] (Macedonian), डॅफी डक (ḍĕphī ḍak) (Marathi), Daffy Duck (Norwegian), Kaczor Daffy (Polish), Patolino [masculine] (Portuguese), Rățoiul Daffy (Romanian), Да́ффи Дак (Dáffi Dak) (Russian), Patak Darko (Serbo-Croatian), Patak Dodo [Croatia] (Serbo-Croatian), Patak Dača [Serbia] (Serbo-Croatian), Pato Lucas [masculine] (Spanish), Daffy Anka (Swedish), Arsız Daffy (Turkish)
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Noun

Forms: Daffy Ducks [plural]
Etymology: The first appearance of the character was in the short Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937; from daffy + duck. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|daffy|duck}} daffy + duck Head templates: {{en-noun|head=Daffy Duck}} Daffy Duck (plural Daffy Ducks)
  1. (usually used attributively) A duck, comical especially for lisping voice or zany behavior. Tags: attributive, usually
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      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "Daffy Duck"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "Dodó kacsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "Oddur Önd"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "Daffy Bebek"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "Daffy Duck"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Dafī Dakku",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "ダフィー・ダック"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Daepi Deok",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "대피 덕"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "Patorot Dačo",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Паторот Дачо"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "ḍĕphī ḍak",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "डॅफी डक"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "Daffy Duck"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "Kaczor Daffy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Patolino"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "Rățoiul Daffy"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Dáffi Dak",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "Да́ффи Дак"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "Patak Darko"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Patak Dodo"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "comic duck",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Patak Dača"
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "comic duck",
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      "word": "Pato Lucas"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "Daffy Anka"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "comic duck",
      "word": "Arsız Daffy"
    }
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    "Daffy Duck",
    "Porky's Duck Hunt"
  ],
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          "text": "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...",
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          "ref": "1989 February 12, “Coots-Feathered Variety-Draw Curses, Gunfire in Orange County”, in Los Angeles Times:",
          "text": "A coot-covered lake looks something like a Daffy Duck convention.",
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          "ref": "1993, Vernon Lionel Shetley, “John Ashbery's Difficulty”, in After the Death of Poetry, page 127:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1996 February 8, Dallas Morning News:",
          "text": "Me, I just kind of moved along in a Daffy Duck shuffle.",
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          "ref": "1996, Joseph R. Garber, Vertical Run, page 30:",
          "text": "His inner voice, his guardian angel sneered in a Daffy Duck voice, Of courth you realithe thith meanth war[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 November 10, “Recount is the talk of the town”, in San Diego Union-Tribune:",
          "text": "\"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.",
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          "ref": "2000, Gene Brewer, K-PAX, page 243:",
          "text": "\"Yeth thir?\" in his Daffy Duck voice. I thought: He's been hanging around Milton too long",
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