Meanings
- attributiveoftenA 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.
Me, I just kind of moved along in a Daffy Duck shuffle.
1996 February 8, Dallas Morning News5 more examples
A coot-covered lake looks something like a Daffy Duck convention.
1989 February 12, “Coots-Feathered Variety-Draw Curses, Gunfire in Orange County”, in Los Angeles TimesThis 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.
1993, Vernon Lionel Shetley, “John Ashbery's Difficulty”, in After the Death of Poetry, page 127His inner voice, his guardian angel sneered in a Daffy Duck voice, Of courth you realithe thith meanth war[…]
1996, Joseph R. Garber, Vertical Run, page 30"Yeth thir?" in his Daffy Duck voice. I thought: He's been hanging around Milton too long
2000, Gene Brewer, K-PAX, page 243"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.
2000 November 10, “Recount is the talk of the town”, in San Diego Union-Tribune
Origin
From daffy + duck. The character first appeared in the short Porky's Duck Hunt (1937).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Basque Lukas Ahatea
- Lukas Ahateacomic duck
Catalan Ànec Daffy
- Ànec Daffycomic duck
Chinese Mandarin 達菲鴨 /达菲鸭
- 達菲鴨 /达菲鸭 (Dáfēi Yā)comic duck
Czech Kačer Daffy
- Kačer Daffycomic duck
Danish Daffy And
- Daffy Andcomic duck
Dutch Daffy Duck
- Daffy Duckcomic duck
Finnish Repe Sorsa
- Repe Sorsacomic duck
French Daffy Duck
- Daffy Duckcomic duck
German Daffy Duck
- Daffy Duckcomic duck
Hungarian Dodó kacsa
- Dodó kacsacomic duck
Icelandic Oddur Önd
- Oddur Öndcomic duck
Indonesian Daffy Bebek
- Daffy Bebekcomic duck
Italian Daffy Duck
- Daffy Duckcomic duck
Japanese ダフィー・ダック
- ダフィー・ダック (Dafī Dakku)comic duck
Korean 대피 덕
- 대피 덕 (Daepi Deok)comic duck
Norwegian Daffy Duck
- Daffy Duckcomic duck
Polish Kaczor Daffy
- Kaczor Daffycomic duck
Portuguese Patolino
- Patolinocomic duck
Romanian Rățoiul Daffy
- Rățoiul Daffycomic duck
Russian Да́ффи Дак
- Да́ффи Дак (Dáffi Dak)comic duck
Spanish Pato Lucas
- Pato Lucascomic duck
Swedish Daffy Anka
- Daffy Ankacomic duck
Turkish Arsız Daffy
- Arsız Daffycomic duck
Cite this entry
Daffy Duck. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Daffy%20Duck
“Daffy Duck.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Daffy%20Duck. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Daffy Duck,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Daffy%20Duck.
Source: Daffy Duck on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.