duck-arsed
adjIndelicate; sometimes insulting; indelicate; sometimes insulting
- All the girls, with the exception of May Callan, were squat, and as the country phrase had it—"duck-arsed." They were made for work, for breeding.1949, Patrick Kavanagh, Tarry Flynn: A Novel, Devin-Adair Co., page 78:
- I'm delighted that you should admire Beecham. A pompous little duckarsed bandmaster who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.1963, John Fowles, The Collector, Pan Books paperback ed. (1965), p. 178