Duck

Noun

 * 1) An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, 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 term of endearment
 * 6)  Dear, Mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
 * Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?
 * 1)  A playing card with the rank of two.
 * 2) A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.
 * 3) 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) * 2007, Cynthia Blair, "It Happened on Long Island: 1988—Suffolk County Adopts the Big Duck," Newsday, 21 Feb.:
 * The Big Duck has influenced the world of architecture; any building that is shaped like its product is called a ‘duck’.

Hyponyms

 * Anas platyrhynchos (domesticus), Mallard-derived domestic breeds, including Pekin, Rouen, Campbell, Call, Runner; Cairina moschata, Muscovy duck

Derived terms

 * break one’s duck, break the duck
 * Burdekin duck
 * dabbling duck
 * diving duck
 * duck-arsed
 * duck-footed
 * duckbill


 * duck-billed
 * duckboard
 * duckling
 * ducks and drakes
 * ducks on the pond
 * lame duck
 * odd duck


 * Peking duck
 * quack like a duck‎
 * shelduck
 * sitting duck
 * take to something like a duck to water

Noun

 * 1) A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
 * 2) * 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from Selected Short Stories:
 * He was dressed in a Jaeger vest—a pair of blue duck trousers, fastened round the waist with a plaited leather belt.

Verb

 * 1)  To lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
 * 2)  To lower (something) into water.
 * 3)  To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
 * 4)  To try to evade doing something.
 * 5)  To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
 * 6) * 2007, Alexander U. Case, Sound FX: unlocking the creative potential of recording studio effects (page 183)
 * The music is ducked under the voice.

Synonyms

 * duck down
 * dip, dunk
 * dip

Derived terms

 * duck and cover
 * duck out

Adjectives for Duck
iridescent; gabbling.

Verbs for Duck
discover—; draw through—; follow—; form—; Introduce—; mark—; meet—; ob¬serve—; pass through—; perfect—; retreat through—; tap—; —communicates; —contains; —conveys; —directs; —dispatches; —guides; —runs; —secretes; —transmits; —turns.

Thesaurus
Adamite, Bantam, Cornish hen, about the bush, also-ran, angel, avert, avoid, avoidance, avoiding reaction, babe, baby, baby-doll, back and fill, banty, baptism, baptize, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, bastard, beat around, beg the question, being, bend, bend the knee, biddy, bilk, bird, blench, blink, bob, body, booby, bow, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bugger, burial, bury, buttercup, caille, canard, caneton, capon, case, cat, chanticleer, chap, chapon, character, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, circumvention, cock, cockerel, creature, cringe, crouch, curtsy, customer, darling, dear, deary, defeatee, defense mechanism, deluge, dindon, dip, dipping, dive, dodge, dog it, doll, domestic fowl, double, douse, dousing, drake, draw back, draw in, drown, duck duty, ducking, duckling, dunghill fowl, dunk, dunking, earthling, elude, elusion, elusiveness, engulf, engulfment, equivocate, equivocation, escape, eschew, evade, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, fade, faisan, fall back, fall guy, fallback, feller, fellow, fence, flinch, float, flood, flow on, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, fowl, fryer, game fowl, game loser, gander, genuflect, genuflection, get out of, getting around, gobbler, goldbrick, good loser, good sport, goof off, goose, gosling, groundling, grouse, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, guy, hand, hang back, head, hedge, hem and haw, hen, hen turkey, homo, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child, hum and haw, human, human being, immerge, immergence, immerse, immersion, individual, inundate, inundation, jasper, jib, jink, joker, kneel, kneeling, kowtow, lad, lamb, lambkin, life, living soul, loser, love, lover, make a reverence, malinger, man, merge, mince the truth, mince words, mortal, neutrality, nod, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nose, not pull fair, obeisance, oddball, oddity, oie, one, original, overwhelm, palter, parry, partlet, partridge, party, person, personage, personality, pet, petkins, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, plunge, plunge in water, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, pour on, precious, precious heart, prevaricate, prevent, prevention, prostration, pull away, pull back, pull in, pull out, pullback, pullet, pullout, pussyfoot, put off, quail, quiz, rain, recoil, reel back, refraining, retract, retreat, reverence, roaster, rooster, salaam, setting hen, sheer off, shift, shift off, shirk, shrink, shrink back, shun, shunning, shunting off, shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep, sidestepping, sidetracking, single, sink, sinking, skulk, slack, slide out of, slip, slip out of, sluice, sneak out of, snookums, soldier, somebody, someone, soul, souse, sousing, spook, sport, spring chicken, squab, squat, start aside, start back, steer clear of, step aside, stewing chicken, stooge, stoop, stud, submerge, submergence, submerse, submersion, sugar, supination, swamp, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, swerve, tellurian, tergiversate, terran, the runaround, the vanquished, tom, tom turkey, turkey, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, turn aside, underdog, victim, volaille, waffle, ward, ward off, weasel, weasel out, welsh, whelm, wild duck, wince, withdraw, worldling, zigzag, zombie

Etymology 1
duce:

Etymology 2
From doek:, doeck:

Etymology 3
douken:; akin to tūhhan:,  dūce:

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Alabama: chooskani
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: ahate,
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: houad
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese: ဘဲ
 * Catalan: ànec
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 鴨子
 * Min Nan:
 * Chuvash: кӑвакал
 * Cree: ᓰᓰᑉ (siisiip), ᔒᔒᑉ (shiishiip)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dolgan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: kpakpaxe
 * Faroese:, ont
 * Finnish: ankka, sorsa
 * French:
 * Friulian: raze
 * Gagauz: ördek
 * Galician: pato
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient:
 * Guaraní: ype
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi-Urdu:
 * Devanagari (Hindi): बतख
 * Arabic (Urdu): بطخ
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: önd, aliönd (domesticated)
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: anate
 * Irish:, tonnóg
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , カモ
 * Kalmyk: нуһсн
 * Karachay-Balkar: бабуш
 * Kazakh: үйрек
 * Khakas: ӧртек
 * Khmer: ទា
 * Korean:
 * Koryak: ӈавʼгаллы
 * Kumyk: оьрдек, бабиш
 * Kurdish: مراوی
 * Kyrgyz: өрдөк
 * Ladin: anera
 * Lao: ເປັດ
 * Latgalian:
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 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malay: itik
 * Malayalam: താറാവ് (thaaRaavu)
 * Maltese:
 * Mari:
 * Western: лыдывлӓ
 * Eastern: лудо
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: rit
 * Ossetian:
 * Digor:
 * Iron:
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, pata
 * Romani: ratsoy, ratsa
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: anda
 * Russia Buryat: нугаhан
 * Russian:
 * Sami: vuojáš
 * Sardinian: anadi
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: ,
 * Shor: ӧртек
 * Sichuan Yi:
 * Slovak: kačka, kačica
 * Slovene: raca, racak , racman , utva or otva  (liter., wild duck)
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower: kacka
 * Upper: kačka
 * Sotho: pidipidi
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: and, anka
 * Tajik: мурғобӣ
 * Taos: p’ȍpíaną
 * Tatar: ürdek
 * Telugu: బాతు (baatu)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ördek
 * Tuvan: өдүрек
 * Udmurt: ӵӧж
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: ئۆردەك
 * Uzbek: oʻrdak
 * Vietnamese: (con) vịt
 * Volapük: dök,  hidök,  jidök,  dökül,  hidökül,  jidökül,  natädadök
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: ein
 * Wolof: kanaara
 * Yakut:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: բադ (bad)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: anasino
 * Faroese: dunnubøga, bøga
 * Finnish: naarassorsa (wild)
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: патка, пајка
 * Maltese:
 * Pashto: ,
 * Polish:


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 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kačka, kačica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: బాతు (baatu)
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: vịt cái
 * Volapük: jidök,  jidökül


 * Armenian: բադ (bad)
 * Bulgarian: патешко месо
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Faroese: dunna
 * Finnish: ankka (domestic), sorsa (wild)
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Lao: ເປັດ
 * Maltese:
 * Pashto: ,
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: and (wild), anka (domesticated)
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: thịt vịt
 * Volapük: dökamit, dökülamit,  dökülablöt


 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Swahili:
 * Vietnamese: ván trắng


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:


 * Russian: двойка


 * : ahate
 * : anado
 * : itik
 * : werdek, ordek
 * : (pe:t)
 * : Aant
 * : guit
 * Sami: suorsá
 * : craccacciola, pabidoi, anadre


 * : ypeka
 * : (bpèt)
 * : dök

Noun

 * Bulgarian:
 * Russian: парусина, грубое полотно


 * Ukrainian: парусина, грубе полотно

Verb

 * Bulgarian: навеждам се
 * Czech: se
 * Danish: dukke
 * Finnish:
 * French: esquiver
 * Greek: το κεφάλι σου στη γούρνα! (to kefali su sti gurna), σκύβω το κεφάλι (skivo to kefali)
 * Russian: пригибаться, пригнуться


 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: skloniti (se)
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: поринати
 * Vietnamese: cúi (đầu)


 * Bulgarian: гмуркам се, потапям се
 * Czech:
 * Danish: dykke
 * French: plonger
 * Greek: κάνω πατητή (kano patiti)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: окунать, окунуть


 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Ukrainian: занурювати, заглиблювати, поринати
 * Vietnamese: dìm (xuống nước), ngụp


 * Czech:
 * Danish: dukke
 * French:
 * Russian: пригибать, пригнуть
 * Scots:


 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: sumergirse
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: ухиляти
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian: избягвам
 * Czech: se
 * Danish: smyge sig uden om, undvige
 * Irish: seachain


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Vietnamese: