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Answer for the clue "Calling like duck ", 8 letters:
quacking

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Word definitions for quacking in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quack \Quack\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Qvacked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Quacking .] [Of imitative origin; cf. D. kwaken, G. quacken, quaken, Icel. kvaka to twitter.] To utter a sound like the cry of a duck. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. `` To quack ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The sound made by a group of ducks; quacks. vb. (present participle of quack English)

Usage examples of quacking.

He set his keyboard on the big oak table and began to issue orders in his quacking voice.

He shrieked when he saw that he had smeared jam on the fingers of one glove, and kept quacking until he had flapped the glove into the trash extractor.

Any day she expected to see him grinning from above a jigsaw puzzle and quacking in joy as he pounded a whittled piece into place.

Halfway along he finally looked directly at Michael, who stood dripping and cringing in the pool, each hand propping up a draped, heaving, weakly quacking duck.

The roosters in the barnyard were crowing, the ducks in the canal were quacking, and all the little birds in the fields were singing for joy.

Remo was not quite sure how Chiun had translated the facts into his own thinking but somehow the feeding of ducks had gotten into it and there were, between the long periods of silence, comments about corn, something being fit for ducks, and the quackings of the American way of life, with Remo being the repository of its most grievous flaws.

Instead of his customary scoldings, hoarse quackings, and mischievous foolery.

Pegeen might find words for what I feel right now, but my dumb brain can only bring up flat quackings - could only do that even if I weren't stunned.