Daffy Duck

From daffy +‎ duck. The character first appeared in the short Porky's Duck Hunt (1937).

Daffy Duck

1. (often attributive) A fictional anthropomorphic black duck in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons by Warner Bros., with a distinctive lisping voice and zany behavior.
   • 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, Gene Brewer, K-PAX, page 243:

     "Yeth thir?" in his Daffy Duck voice. I thought: He's been hanging around Milton too long

   • 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.

• Daffy Duck offense

• Example of Daffy Duck voice at YouTube

From English Daffy Duck.

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

Daffy Duck

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