'Duck' definitions:
Definition of 'duck'
(from WordNet)
noun
Small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
noun
(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman [syn: duck, duck's egg]
noun
Flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
noun
A heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
verb
To move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"
verb
Submerge or plunge suddenly
verb
verb
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" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep]
Definition of 'Duck'
From: GCIDE
- Duck \Duck\ (d[u^]k), n. [Cf. Dan. dukke, Sw. docka, OHG. doccha, G. docke. Cf. Doxy.] A pet; a darling. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Duck'
From: GCIDE
- Duck \Duck\, n. [OE. duke, doke. See Duck, v. t. ]
- 1. (Zool.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatin[ae], family Anatid[ae]. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The genera and species are numerous. They are divided into river ducks and sea ducks. Among the former are the common domestic duck (Anas boschas); the wood duck (Aix sponsa); the beautiful mandarin duck of China (Dendronessa galeriliculata); the Muscovy duck, originally of South America (Cairina moschata). Among the sea ducks are the eider, canvasback, scoter, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water. [1913 Webster]
- Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Bombay duck (Zool.), a fish. See Bummalo.
- Buffel duck, Spirit duck. See Buffel duck.
- Duck ant (Zool.), a species of white ant in Jamaica which builds large nests in trees.
- Duck barnacle. (Zool.) See Goose barnacle.
- Duck hawk. (Zool.) (a) In the United States: The peregrine falcon. (b) In England: The marsh harrier or moor buzzard.
- Duck mole (Zool.), a small aquatic mammal of Australia, having webbed feet and a bill resembling that of a duck (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole.
- To make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets; hence:
- To play at ducks and drakes, with property, to throw it away heedlessly or squander it foolishly and unprofitably.
- Lame duck. See under Lame. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Duck'
From: GCIDE
- Duck \Duck\, n. [D. doek cloth, canvas, or Icel. d[=u]kr cloth; akin to OHG. tuoh, G. tuch, Sw. duk, Dan. dug.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Naut.) pl. The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Duck'
From: GCIDE
- Duck \Duck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ducked; p. pr. & vb. n. Ducking.] [OE. duken, douken, to dive; akin to D. duiken, OHG. t?hhan, MHG. tucken, t["u]cken, t?chen, G. tuchen. Cf. 5th Duck.]
- 1. To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw. [1913 Webster]
- Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub. --Fielding. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion. " Will duck his head aside." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Duck'
From: GCIDE
- Duck \Duck\ (d[u^]k), v. i.
- 1. To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip. [1913 Webster]
- In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow. [1913 Webster]
- The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'duck'
From: GCIDE
- Widgeon \Widg"eon\, n. [Probably from an old French form of F. vigeon, vingeon, gingeon; of uncertain origin; cf. L. vipio, -onis, a kind of small crane.] (Zool.) Any one of several species of fresh-water ducks, especially those belonging to the subgenus Mareca, of the genus Anas. The common European widgeon (Anas penelope) and the American widgeon (Anas Americana) are the most important species. The latter is called also baldhead, baldpate, baldface, baldcrown, smoking duck, wheat, duck, and whitebelly. [1913 Webster]
- Bald-faced widgeon, or Green-headed widgeon, the American widgeon.
- Black widgeon, the European tufted duck.
- Gray widgeon. (a) The gadwall. (b) The pintail duck.
- Great headed widgeon, the poachard.
- Pied widgeon. (a) The poachard. (b) The goosander.
- Saw-billed widgeon, the merganser.
- Sea widgeon. See in the Vocabulary.
- Spear widgeon, the goosander. [Prov. Eng.]
- Spoonbilled widgeon, the shoveler.
- White widgeon, the smew.
- Wood widgeon, the wood duck. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'duck'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- about the bush,
- Adamite,
- also-ran,
- angel,
- avert,
- avoid,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- babe,
- baby,
- baby-doll,
- back and fill,
- Bantam,
- 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,
- Cornish hen,
- 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
Words containing 'Duck'
- Ducked,
- Ducking,
- duck down,
- duck out,
- Bombay duck,
- Buffel duck,
- Duck Hill,
- Duck Key,
- Duck ant,
- Duck barnacle,
- Duck hawk,
- Duck mole,
- Ducking stool,
- Fen duck,
- Field duck,
- Fish duck,
- Gorse duck,
- Gray duck,
- Harlequin duck,
- King duck,
- Labrador duck,
- Lame duck,
- Muscovy duck,
- Musk duck,
- Pheasant duck,
- Raft duck,
- River duck,
- Rock duck,
- Ruddy duck,
- Scaup duck,
- Scotch duck,
- Sea duck,
- Sleepy duck,
- Spectacled duck,
- Spirit duck,
- Squam duck,
- Squawk duck,
- Steamer duck,
- Steel duck,
- Stock duck,
- Summer duck,
- Surf duck,
- Teal duck,
- Tree duck,
- Tufted duck,
- Velvet duck,
- Vicissy duck,
- Wheat duck,
- Whew duck,
- Whistle duck,
- Whistling duck,
- Winter duck,
- Wood duck,
- black duck,
- bridal duck,
- burrow duck,
- canvasback duck,
- cold duck,
- dabbling duck,
- dead duck,
- diving duck,
- donald duck,
- duck egg,
- duck hunter,
- duck hunting,
- duck pate,
- duck sauce,
- duck shot,
- duck snipe,
- duck soup,
- duck's egg,
- ducks and drakes,
- eider duck,
- fall duck,
- flock duck,
- fool duck,
- lake duck,
- maiden duck,
- mandarin duck,
- pied duck,
- queer duck,
- river ducks,
- sea ducks,
- sitting duck,
- smee duck,
- smoking duck,
- weasel duck,
- wild duck,
- Decoy-duck,
- Duck Hill, MS,
- Duck Key, FL,
- Duck's-bill,
- Duck's-foot,
- Duck's-meat,
- Duck-billed,
- Duck-legged,
- Raven's-duck,
- To make ducks and drakes,
- To play at ducks and drakes,
- lesser scaup duck,
- Duck's-bill limpet,
- Duck-billed platypus,
- Ring-necked duck,
- Swallow-tailed duck,
- duck-billed cat,
- duck-billed dinosaur,
- pin-tailed duck,
- red-headed duck,
- side-wheel duck