2001, Garth Nix, Lirael, Harper Trophy (2002), ISBN 0060278234, page 288:Forcing her clawed forepaws to be still, she tried to concentrate on the room, hampered by her otterish vision, with its different field of view and lack of color.
2002, Bob Ellis, Goodbye Babylon: Further Journeys in Time and Politics, Viking (2002), ISBN 9780670040827, page 475:His jovial, otterish, undergraduate, joshing decency was real, I decided, very country town, very West Australian.
2009, C. Stephen Baldwin, Shadows Over Sundials: Dark and Light: Life in a Large Outside World, iUniverse (2009), ISBN 9781440157172, page 2:That didn't change the silence of early evenings when I lay in bed and listened to the smaller branches of my favorite oak tree scrape gently against the house outside my window while a whippoorwill, which I always imagined for some reason as a small otterish animal, hooted softly against the approaching dark.