duck

Etymology 1
From, , , from 🇨🇬, from , from , probably from (whence 🇨🇬).

Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,. Related also to 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
 * 2)  To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
 * 3)  To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
 * 4)  To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
 * 5)  To bow.
 * 6)  To evade doing something.
 * 7)  To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
 * 8)  To enter a place for a short moment.
 * 1)  To bow.
 * 2)  To evade doing something.
 * 3)  To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
 * 4)  To enter a place for a short moment.
 * 1)  To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
 * 2)  To enter a place for a short moment.
 * 1)  To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
 * 2)  To enter a place for a short moment.
 * 1)  To enter a place for a short moment.
 * 1)  To enter a place for a short moment.

Noun

 * 1)  A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.



Etymology 2
From, , , , , , from , , from , from , from. See verb above.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, , 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) An aquatic bird of the family, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
 * 2) Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
 * 3)  The flesh of a duck used as food.
 * 4)  A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
 * 5)  A playing card with the rank of two.
 * 6) A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
 * A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
 * 1) A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
 * 2)  A cairn used to mark a trail.
 * 3) One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
 * 4)  A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
 * 5)  A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
 * 1)  A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
 * 2)  A faggot; a meatball made from offal.

Derived terms

 * baby duck syndrome
 * break one's duck, break the duck
 * (Anas spp.)
 * Black Duck
 * Burdekin duck
 * cold duck
 * dabbling duck ( spp.)
 * decoy duck
 * diving duck ( spp.)
 * Donald Duck
 * duck-arsed
 * duckbill
 * duck-billed
 * duckboard
 * duck decoy
 * duck-footed
 * duckkind
 * duckling
 * duckness
 * ducks and drakes
 * ducks on the pond
 * duckweed
 * duck on a rock
 * duck tape
 * duck test
 * eider duck
 * fuzzy duck
 * get one's ducks in a row
 * hunt where the ducks are
 * lame duck
 * like water off a duck's back
 * Lord love a duck
 * milkshake duck
 * odd duck
 * Peking duck
 * rubber duck
 * quack like a duck
 * shelduck ( spp. etc.)
 * sitting duck
 * take to something like a duck to water
 * all duck or no dinner
 * American black duck
 * baby duck syndrome
 * Beijing duck
 * black-headed duck
 * blue duck
 * Bombay duck
 * Brahminy duck
 * buffel duck
 * burrow duck
 * can a duck
 * can a duck swim
 * could eat the arse out of a low flying duck
 * could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck
 * could eat the crutch from a low flying duck
 * dead duck
 * decoy-duck
 * demon duck of doom
 * diamond duck
 * divvy duck
 * domestic duck
 * duck ague
 * duck and dive
 * duck ant
 * duck arsed
 * duck butter
 * duck call
 * duck clam ( spp.)
 * duck curve
 * duck decoy
 * duck derby
 * duck dive
 * duck egg
 * duck fart
 * duck hawk, duck-hawk
 * duck itch
 * duck mole
 * duck on drake
 * duck on the rock
 * duck potato ( spp.)
 * duck press
 * duck race
 * duck sauce
 * duck soup
 * duck stamp
 * duck test
 * duck tour
 * duck typing
 * duck walk
 * duck-bill
 * duck-billed cat ( spp.)
 * duck-billed dinosaur ( spp.)
 * duck-billed platypus
 * duck-drownder
 * duck-egg blue
 * duck-legged
 * ferruginous duck
 * Field-lane duck
 * fluffy duck
 * freckled duck
 * fuck a duck
 * German duck
 * golden duck
 * Gressingham duck
 * harlequin duck
 * have one's ducks in a row
 * if it looks like a duck
 * Indian whistling duck
 * Labrador duck
 * lame-duck
 * Laysan duck
 * lesser whistling duck
 * like a duck takes to water
 * like a duck to water
 * like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
 * loggerhead duck
 * long-tailed duck
 * love a duck
 * lucky duck
 * mandarin duck
 * Mexican duck
 * mottled duck
 * mud duck
 * Muscovy duck
 * musk duck
 * one little duck
 * out for a duck
 * Pekin duck
 * Peking duck
 * pink-eared duck
 * pintail duck (Anas spp.)
 * platinum duck
 * pressed duck
 * queer duck
 * raft duck
 * raven's duck
 * ring-necked duck
 * roan duck, Rouen duck
 * royal duck
 * rubber duck debugging
 * rubber-duck
 * ruddy duck
 * ruptured duck
 * savoury duck
 * sea duck, seaduck ( spp.)
 * spirit duck
 * spotted whistling duck
 * squawk duck
 * St. Cuthbert's duck ( spp.)
 * steamer duck ( spp.)
 * step on a duck
 * stiff-tailed duck ( spp.)
 * surf duck
 * torrent duck
 * tree duck ('' spp., )
 * tufted duck
 * two little ducks
 * unsinkable rubber duck
 * velvet duck
 * wandering whistling duck
 * water off a duck
 * whew duck
 * whistling duck ( spp.)
 * white-headed duck
 * wood duck
 * Zhangcha duck
 * box of fluffy ducks
 * chance the ducks
 * don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks
 * ducks and geese
 * ducks guts
 * fine weather for ducks
 * go hunting where the ducks are
 * have one's ducks in a row
 * hunt where the ducks were
 * line up one's ducks
 * lovely weather for ducks
 * nice weather for ducks
 * lovely weather for ducks
 * nice weather for ducks

Translations

 * Basque:
 * Indonesian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Lao:
 * Occitan:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian:, ,
 * Tupinambá:

Etymology 3
From, from , , from , from , from , from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1)  A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
 * 2)  Trousers made of such material.
 * 1)  Trousers made of such material.

Etymology 4
Potteries dialect, Black Country dialect and dialects of the former territory of Mercia (central England). Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, dialectal English.

Noun

 * 1) ; pet; darling.
 * 2)  Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
 * Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?
 * Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:friend

Derived terms

 * duckie
 * duckie