What does duck mean?
Definitions for duck
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Princeton's WordNet
ducknoun
small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
duck, duck's eggnoun
(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
ducknoun
flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
duckverb
a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
duckverb
to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
"Before he could duck, another stone struck him"
duckverb
submerge or plunge suddenly
dip, douse, duckverb
dip into a liquid
"He dipped into the pool"
hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestepverb
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
"He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
Wiktionary
Ducknoun
A surname.
Etymology: From douken, from *, from dūkanan. Akin to German tauchen, Dutch duiken.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
DUCKnoun
Etymology: ducken, to dip, Dutch.
The ducks that heard the proclamation cry’d,
And fear’d a persecution might betide,
Full twenty mile from town their voyage take,
Obscure in rushes of the liquid lake. John Dryden, Nun’s Priest.Grubs if you find your land subject to, turn ducks into it. John Mortimer, Husbandry.
Will you buy any tape, or lace for your cap,
My dainty duck, my dear-a? William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.Back, shepherds, back; enough your play,
’Till next sunshine holyday:
Here be without duck or nod,
Other trippings to be trod,
Of lighter toes, and such court guise
As Mercury did first devise. John Milton.Neither cross and pile, nor ducks and drakes, are quite so ancient as handy-dandy. Scriblerus Club , Mart. Scriblerus.
To Duckverb
To put under water.
To Duckverb
Etymology: from the noun.
The varlet saw, when to the flood he came,
How without stop or stay he fiercely leapt;
And deep himself be ducked in the same,
That in the lake his lofty crest was steept. Fairy Queen.Let the labouring bark climb hills of seas
Olympus high, and duck again as low
As hell’s from heav’n. William Shakespeare, Othello.Thou art wickedly devout;
In Tiber ducking thrice, by break of day. John Dryden, Pers.As some raw youth in country bred,
When at a skirmish first he hears
The bullets whistling round his ears,
Will duck his head aside, will start,
And feel a trembling at his heart. Jonathan Swift.I cannot flatter and look fair,
Smile in mens faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy. William Shakespeare, R. III.The learned pate
Ducks to the golden fool. William Shakespeare, Timon.
Wikipedia
Duck
"The Duck is a song written by Fred Sledge Smith and Earl Nelson and performed by Jackie Lee. It reached No. 4 on the U. S. R&B chart and No. 14 on the U. S. pop chart in 1966. It was featured on his 1966 album The Duck. The song was arranged by Fred Hill and produced by Fred Sledge Smith.
ChatGPT
duck
A duck is a type of waterfowl that is smaller than a swan and goose, typically found in both fresh and sea water. Ducks belong to the family Anatidae and have a broad body, short legs, webbed feet, and a flattened bill. They are omnivorous, eating aquatic plants and small animals. Some species of ducks are known for their quacking sound. Ducks are migratory birds and are found all around the world, except in Antarctica. Females are typically responsible for nest building and incubating eggs. The male duck is usually brighter in color than the female.
Webster Dictionary
Ducknoun
a pet; a darling
Ducknoun
a linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing
Ducknoun
the light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates
Duckverb
to thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw
Duckverb
to plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy
Duckverb
to bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion
Duckverb
to go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip
Duckverb
to drop the head or person suddenly; to bow
Duckverb
any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae
Duckverb
a sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water
Etymology: [OE. duken, douken, to dive; akin to D. duiken, OHG. thhan, MHG. tucken, tcken, tchen, G. tuchen. Cf. 5th Duck.]
Wikidata
Duck
Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the Anatidae family of birds, which also includes swans and geese. The ducks are divided among several subfamilies in the Anatidae family; they do not represent a monophyletic group but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered ducks. Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than the swans and geese, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water. Ducks are sometimes confused with several types of unrelated water birds with similar forms, such as loons or divers, grebes, gallinules, and coots.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Duck
duk, n. a kind of coarse cloth for small sails, sacking, &c. [Dut. doeck, linen cloth; Ger. tuch.]
Duck
duk, v.t. to dip for a moment in water.—v.i. to dip or dive: to lower the head suddenly: to cringe, yield.—n. a quick plunge, dip: a quick lowering of the head or body, a jerky bow.—ns. Duck′er, one who ducks: a diving-bird; Duck′ing; Duck′ing-pond; Duck′ing-stool, a stool or chair in which scolds were formerly tied and ducked in the water as a punishment. [A.S. dúcan, to duck, dive; Ger. tauchen, Dut. duiken.]
Duck
duk, n. name given to any member of the family Anatidæ, the prominent marks of which are short webbed feet, with a small hind-toe not reaching the ground, the netted scales in front of the lower leg, and the long bill: the female duck as distinguished from the male drake: in cricket (originally duck's egg), the zero (0), which records in a scoring-sheet that a player has made no runs: (coll.) a darling, sweetheart: a financial defaulter—esp. Lame Duck: also of things.—ns. Duck′-ant, a Jamaican termite nesting in trees; Duck′-bill, an aquatic burrowing and egg-laying Australian mammal, about 18 inches long, with soft fur, broadly webbed feet, and depressed duck-like bill—also called Duck-mole, Platypus, and Ornithorhynchus.—adj. Duck′-billed, having a bill like a duck.—n. Duck′-hawk, the moor-buzzard or marsh-harrier: the peregrine falcon of the United States.—adj. Duck′-legged, short-legged.—ns. Duck′ling, a young duck; Duck's′-foot, the lady's mantle; Duck′-weed, a name for several species of Lemna and Wolffia growing in ditches; Bombay duck, bummals; Wild′-duck, the mallard.—Break one's duck (cricket), to make one's first run (see above); Make, Play, ducks and drakes, to use recklessly: squander, waste (with with, of)—from the skipping of a flat stone across the surface of water. [A.S. duce, a duck, from, dúcan, to duck, dive.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
duck
The finest canvas (No. 8) for small sails, is sometimes so called; but it is really a lighter cloth than canvas, and is greatly used by seamen and soldiers on tropical stations for frocks and trousers.
Editors Contribution
duck
A type of aquatic bird.
A duck lives in or on water of a variety of different types e.g. lake, stream or sea.
Submitted by MaryC on March 14, 2016
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
DUCK
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Duck is ranked #7367 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Duck surname appeared 4,521 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Duck.
77.2% or 3,494 total occurrences were White.
15.9% or 719 total occurrences were Black.
2.4% or 112 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
2% or 91 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.4% or 66 total occurrences were Asian.
0.8% or 39 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
British National Corpus
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'duck' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2866
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'duck' in Nouns Frequency: #1935
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of duck in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of duck in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of duck in a Sentence
That debate was the worst thing Ive ever seen I was in The Star Wars Holiday Special, it was the worst thing I have ever experienced and I made out with a duck.
It is very hard to see how the conference can continue this way, with a president who is even worse than a lame duck, the credibility of the Massimo Faggioli bishops is in freefall, which can only be stopped by a visible change in leadership.
My qualifications for president of the United States are rather narrow: Is he or she Godly, does he or she love us, can he or she do the job, and finally would they kill a duck and put him in a pot and make him a good duck gumbo? cruz fits the bill.
It's clear that gun-free zones are sitting-duck zones.
Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez:
He was a fool.As public as Penn is he will be a sitting duck.
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- بطArabic
- kachnaCzech
- andDanish
- EnteGerman
- πάπιαGreek
- anasoEsperanto
- patoSpanish
- اردکPersian
- ankkaFinnish
- canardFrench
- बत्तखHindi
- kacsaHungarian
- բադիկArmenian
- bebekIndonesian
- anatraItalian
- ברווזHebrew
- アヒルJapanese
- 오리Korean
- anatisLatin
- eendDutch
- andNorwegian
- kaczkaPolish
- PatoPortuguese
- rațăRomanian
- уткаRussian
- ankaSwedish
- வாத்துTamil
- เป็ดThai
- ordekTurkish
- качкаUkrainian
- con vịtVietnamese
- קאַטשקעYiddish
- 鸭Chinese
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