duckish

comparative more duckish · superlative most duckish

1. Characteristically resembling a duck; somewhat ducklike

   We are quite plainly conscious that the “ears” of the rabbity figure are identical with the “bill” of the duckish figure, that the slight notch on the back of the duckish figure's “head” is the “mouth” of the rabbity figure.

   2011, Walter Hopp, Perception and Knowledge

1. NewfoundlanduncountableDusk.

   […] robins, hitch sparrows, whitethroats, chickadees, all kinds of them singing their hearts out. They would keep at that until the sun came up and then slack off. And then again at duckish, if it was a civil evening, you'd hear them […]

   1986, Gary L. Saunders, Rattles and steadies: memoirs of a Gander River man, page 80

   Synonyms: crepusculum, dimmity, mirkning