English

Proper noun

Ottery

1. The local name of Ottery St Mary

English

Adjective

ottery ‎(comparative otterier, superlative otteriest)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.
   • 1991, BBC Wildlife, page 236:

     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.

   • 1996, Albert Goldbarth, Adventures in Ancient Egypt: Poems, Ohio State University Press (1996), ISBN 0814207146, page 23:

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

   • 2006, Hans Kruuk, Otters: Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation, Oxford University Press (2006), ISBN 9780191513725, page 79:

     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.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:ottery.

Synonyms

• lutrine, otterish, otterlike