ottery

comparative more ottery · superlative most ottery

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.

   […] this guy she's seen before with the . . . ferret? or mongoose? ... an ottery thing, whatever, on a clothesline leash. . . .

   1996, Albert Goldbarth, Adventures in Ancient Egypt: Poems, Ohio State University Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 23

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   Anyone who has watched, for example, a litter of otter cubs rolling about in an ottery tangle can hardly doubt that they're really having fun.

   1991, BBC Wildlife, page 236

   Spraints consist mostly of food remains, such as fish bones, to which are added the fairly inconspicuous secretions of two anal glands, situated along the gut close to the anus; they produce the 'ottery' smell.

   2006, Hans Kruuk, Otters: Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation, Oxford University Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 79

   Synonyms: lutrine, otterish, otterlike

1. The local name of Ottery St Mary.
2. A river in Cornwall, England, which joins the River Tamar; in full, the River Ottery.