muskratty

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

muskrat +‎ -y

Adjective[edit]

muskratty (comparative more muskratty, superlative most muskratty)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a muskrat.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      Gary and Chipper, her fifth-grader and her first-grader, had the chlorination of the Y about them. With their damp hair they looked riparian. Muskratty, beaverish.