Birds — term of endearment (informal)

Usage examples of ducks.

The river was choked with swans and ducks, streaming up to the banks for their lunch.

Jury watched the ducks bobbing in the shadows of the willows, like lumps of coal.

Sydney Ducks were the primary reason Grey was at the wharf himself this morning.

The Ducks were a loosely organized gang of felons who had tickets-of-leave from the English penal colony in Australia.

Highwaymen and murderers, forgers and sneaksmen, the Sydney Ducks had someone of experience in every aspect of the roughest criminal trade.

Feared and shunned at the outset, the Sydney Ducks capitalized on it, turning it into their strength.

Grey watched, the Ducks took up position on either side of the boy and lifted him by his upper arms.

The Ducks began swinging him by his arms and legs, back and forth, higher and higher, until they started their count.

The Ducks came up holding fishtails but no boy, and their angry stomping soon mired them to mid-calf in slippery, stinking fish.

The tabby that had been run off by the Sydney Ducks found her again and was not at all put off by her fish perfume.

He took on two of the Ducks this morning and came close to coming out ahead.

In Sydney Town open fires marked the places where the Ducks gathered to discuss their business.

He scratched his head while he looked warily at the small gathering of Ducks across the street.

You and your committee will drive the Ducks out but not without claiming some innocents.

Offering no proof, the reporter and Brannan surmised that it was the work of the Sydney Ducks, a response to their displeasure with the Vigilance Committee.