muskratty

English

Etymology

From muskrat +‎ -y.

Adjective

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.