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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
duckling
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ugly
▪ It's certainly the ugly duckling of the era-until you get to drive one.
▪ An ugly duckling, like a printing press, was transformed into a well-behaved goose laying golden eggs.
▪ But Beryl is an ugly duckling rapidly turning into a beautiful swan ... all through the hard work of recovering mental patients.
▪ However, roses are not swans, and all too often ugly ducklings remain ugly ducklings.
▪ The loco is a bit of an ugly duckling.
■ VERB
kill
▪ Patrol officer Bob Edwards says heavy wash from cabin cruisers can kill young ducklings and harm other wildlife.
▪ For example: The farmer kills a duckling.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ugly duckling
▪ An ugly duckling, like a printing press, was transformed into a well-behaved goose laying golden eggs.
▪ But Beryl is an ugly duckling rapidly turning into a beautiful swan ... all through the hard work of recovering mental patients.
▪ However, roses are not swans, and all too often ugly ducklings remain ugly ducklings.
▪ It's certainly the ugly duckling of the era-until you get to drive one.
▪ The loco is a bit of an ugly duckling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A duckling wants to swim; well there is such a thing as water.
▪ A long way south a plump caique thudded past towing a line of six little lamp-boats, like a mallard with ducklings.
▪ An ugly duckling, like a printing press, was transformed into a well-behaved goose laying golden eggs.
▪ Duck to the bar, ducklings panting to a seat.
▪ It's certainly the ugly duckling of the era-until you get to drive one.
▪ Patrol officer Bob Edwards says heavy wash from cabin cruisers can kill young ducklings and harm other wildlife.
▪ Sailed through college, picked up academic jargon like a duckling gobbles worms.
▪ The Ahrens' 40 ducklings also died within a fortnight.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Duckling

Duckling \Duck"ling\, n. A young or little duck.
--Gay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
duckling

mid-15c., dookelynge, from duck (n.) + -ling. The ugly duckling is from Hans Christian Andersen's tale (1843 in Danish, by 1846 in English).

Wiktionary
duckling

n. A young duck.

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WordNet
duckling

  1. n. flesh of a young domestic duck

  2. young duck

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Wikipedia
Duckling (software)

Duckling, the collaboration environment software suite for e-Science, is an open-source software suite developed by CERC (Collaboration Environment Research Center) of CNIC (Computer Network Information Center of CAS) to meet the rapid progress of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ e-Science activities. The goals of Duckling include integrating various resources such as digital hardware, software and data, and building a high efficient and easy-to-use environment over Internet for scientists distributed in different positions to enable a new type scientific action mode.

Duckling (disambiguation)

A duckling is a baby duck.

"Duckling" or "ducklings" may also refer to:

  • Duckling (software), a collaborative software suite
  • "Duckling", a 2011 episode of the TV series Louie
  • Fairey Duckling 10' Sailing Dinghy made by Fairey Marine in 1950's/60's
  • Loening Duckling, the name of several models of aircraft developed by Loening Aeronautical Engineering in the 1910s and 1920s
  • Lincoln Ducklings, a minor-league American baseball team in the Western League that existed only in 1906
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Usage examples of "duckling".

I knew it was a good place because of the menu, part of which I could see steaming away on a centre table: roast duckling dripping with orange sauce.

She received the duckling from him and restored it to its brethren in the box.

He loved her when she was still the ugly duckling and that carried a lot of emotional weight.

Bree the ugly duckling from Damon Kerry, but the entire bottom shelf was filled with paperback romance novels.

Jetta had risen to a hunting crouch, and one little duckling was paddling close to the bank.

At the beginning of their acquaintance her interest in Markham had not been unlike that of the motherly hen in the doings of the newly hatched duckling with which she differed as to the practical utility of duckponds.

Ugly Duckling to write it on a card and hold it up to one of the cameras.

Ugly Duckling was moored, interviewing 221 the security guards there, but our best hope is the hotel.

Charles Geisler, who earlier spoke to us from the Ugly Duckling on his mobile phone.

Ugly Duckling and headed for the Pacific Vista when they learned that was where the fresh blood would be.

But on another monitor he could see the bomb on the Ugly Duckling, and could see also why Corby had placed it under his own surveillance.

A motor launch bearing a network camera crew pulled up to join the ring of police and coastguard vessels surrounding the Ugly Duckling, all engines idling.

The police boats began moving again, pulling right up alongside the Ugly Duckling and throwing ropes across to Baird and his crew members.

Local dispatch got about ten calls in the last few minutes, all witnesses timing the explosion at roughly the same moment the Ugly Duckling went up.

I mean, unless they were involved in planting the device on the Duckling, but why would he contract that one out and do the hotel one himself?