Crossword clues for duck
duck
- ____ Lake, Saskatchewan
- Look out!
- Sitting ___
- Pond paddler
- You can get down from it
- Saskatchewan's _____ Lake
- Pond quacker
- Farm bird
- A dead ____
- You might get down from one
- You can get down from it — get down!
- Shout of warning
- Quacking flier
- Quacking bird
- Put your head down
- Donald of cartoons
- Canvaslike cloth
- Bird that quacks
- Avoid getting hit in the ring
- Avoid an incoming projectile, perhaps
- Aflac mascot
- Â"Watch your head!Â"
- "Watch your head!"
- "It's headed right at us!"
- "Get down!"
- "... and it quacks like a ___ ..."
- "___ Dynasty" (hit reality show on A&E)
- Aquatic game birds
- Nothing supporting meeting, one's very much exposed to criticism
- Source of soft feathers
- With 46-Across, "It ain't hard!"
- Evade — bird
- Avoid a beanball, maybe
- Small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
- (in cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
- A heavy cotton fabric of plain weave
- Used for clothing and tents
- Canvasback
- Cold ___
- Get out of what one might get out for
- Avoid expression of affection
- Eg, eider; get down
- Out for nothing
- Water bird; zero score
- Avoid cricketing failure
- A batting failure for a famous Donald
- Steer clear of Donald!
- Avoid utter failure at the crease
- Fortune initially increased tenfold, dear
- Poultry and not a sausage for batsman?
- Bob down
- Bird; zero score
- Amphibious motor that's got for nothing?
- Type of 9 to avoid
- Use one's wits to get something
- Water bird
- Down source
- Web-footed bird
- Drake, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] (Zo["o]l.) 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. Bald-faced widgeon, or Green-headed widgeon, the American widgeon. Black widgeon, the European tufted duck. Gray widgeon.
The gadwall.
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The pintail duck. Great headed widgeon, the poachard. Pied widgeon.
The poachard.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
waterfowl, Old English duce (found only in genitive ducan) "a duck," literally "a ducker," presumed to be from Old English *ducan "to duck, dive" (see duck (v.)). Replaced Old English ened as the name for the bird, this being from PIE *aneti-, the root of the "duck" noun in most Indo-European languages.\n\nIn the domestic state the females greatly exceed in number, hence duck serves at once as the name of the female and of the race, drake being a specific term of sex.
[OED]
\nAs a term of endearment, attested from 1580s. duck-walk is 1930s; duck soup "anything easily done" is by 1899. Duck's ass haircut is from 1951. Ducks-and-drakes, skipping flat stones on water, is from 1580s; the figurative sense of "throwing something away recklessly" is c.1600."strong, untwilled linen (later cotton) fabric," used for sails and sailors' clothing, 1630s, from Dutch doeck "linen cloth" (Middle Dutch doec), related to German Tuch "piece of cloth," Danish dug, Old Frisian dok, Old High German tuoh, all of unknown origin.
"to plunge into" (transitive), c.1300; to suddenly go under water (intransitive), mid-14c., from presumed Old English *ducan "to duck," found only in derivative duce (n.) "duck" (but there are cognate words in other Germanic languages, such as Old High German tuhhan "to dip," German tauchen "to dive," Old Frisian duka, Middle Dutch duken "to dip, dive," Dutch duiken), from Proto-Germanic *dukjan.\n
\nSense of "bend, stoop quickly" is first recorded in English 1520s. Related: Ducked; ducking. The noun is attested from 1550s in the sense of "quick stoop;" meaning "a plunge, dip" is from 1843.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. 2 (context transitive English) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. 3 (context intransitive English) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid. 4 (context transitive English) To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. 5 (context intransitive English) To bow. 6 (context transitive English) To evade doing something. 7 (context transitive English) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly. Etymology 2
n. 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 (context uncountable English) The flesh of a duck used as food. 4 (context cricket English) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.) 5 (context slang English) A playing card with the rank of two. 6 A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space. 7 A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related. 8 A marble to be shoot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games. 9 (context US English) A cairn used to mark a trail. 10 One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve. Etymology 3
alt. 1 A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth. 2 (cx in plural English) trousers made of such material. n. 1 A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth. 2 (cx in plural English) trousers made of such material. Etymology 4
n. 1 A term of endearment; pet; darling. 2 (context British dialect chiefly East of the Pennines English) dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
WordNet
n. small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman [syn: duck's egg]
flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
v. to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"
submerge or plunge suddenly
dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool" [syn: dip, douse]
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, sidestep]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
In the card game of contract bridge, to duck (or ducking) means to play low to a trick to which one has led, losing it intentionally in order to set up a suit or to preserve a control or entry. While mechanically identical, a duck is a manoeuver in one's own suit, while a hold up is in a suit played by the opponents. Nevertheless, the terms are used interchangeably with duck or ducking more common.
Duck is a name applied to several bird species of the family Anatidae.
Duck, The Duck or ducks may also refer to:
Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae, which also includes swans and geese. The ducks are divided among several subfamilies in the family Anatidae; they do not represent a monophyletic group (the group of all descendants of a single common ancestral species) but a form taxon, since swans and geese are not considered ducks. Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than the swans and geese, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water.
Ducks are sometimes confused with several types of unrelated water birds with similar forms, such as loons or divers, grebes, gallinules, and coots.
In cricket, a duck is a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero.
Duck is a 2005 American drama film by director-writer-producer Nic Bettauer. It stars Philip Baker Hall. The film is a dystopian view of the near then-future of 2009.
The Duck guitar is the name given to Yngwie Malmsteen's 1972 cream colored Fender Stratocaster guitar. It is known as the Duck owing to a Donald Duck sticker pasted onto the headstock of the instrument.
Duck is the surname of:
- Andrew J. Duck, United States Democratic politician
- Arthur Duck (1580–1648), English lawyer and Member of Parliament
- Emma Duck (born 1981), British sprinter and hurdler
- Jacob Duck (1600–1667), Dutch painter and etcher
- Jenny Duck (born 1968), former field hockey player from New Zealand
- Nicholas Duck (1570–1628), English lawyer
- Richard Duck, English early 16th-century Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
- Simeon Duck (1834–1905), British Columbia businessman and politician
- Stephen Duck (c. 1705 – 1756), English poet
As a nickname, Duck may refer to:
- Duck Edwing (born 1934), American cartoonist, particularly for Mad magazine
- Donald "Duck" Dunn (born 1941), bass player for Booker T. & the M.G.'s and The Blues Brothers
- Jimmy "Duck" Holmes (born 1947), American blues musician
- Duck Baker (born 1949), American guitarist
- Duck MacDonald, American rock guitarist
- Wayne Carey (born 1971), former Australian rules footballer
Fictional characters:
- Donald "Duck" Matthews, in the 1991 movie The Five Heartbeats portrayed by Robert Townsend
- Duck Phillips, on the television show Mad Men
Usage examples of "duck".
He flourished his wrist for just a moment, and Rani ducked her chin, acknowledging the gesture.
The werewolf to the left of Adeem ducked and the star flew by him, hitting Adeem in the shoulder.
The heat was very much stronger than he had expected, and he had to duck his Plexiglas mask away when the near end of the admin building bulged out and then collapsed in a wall of flame.
One time he ducked the attack, skidding to his knees but coming right back up agilely to run on.
Spotting Alec before he could duck back out of sight, they ambled over in his direction.
Crossing the bridge, Alec and Seregil dismounted and ducked into a thicket to change clothes.
He dodged aloose goat, a handcart crusted with dried mortar, and ducked the invitation of a blowzy woman festooned in scarlet ribbons.
Oyster dressing and andouille sausage and a few other goodies are stuffed into a chicken that is then stuffed into a duck that is then stuffed into a turkey.
Charles had been a coachman or a groom, Asey bet, as he ducked behind a clump of bushes and watched the bow - legged little man inarch over to the roadster and play the beam of his flashlight around it, and then over the contents of the seat.
One of the austringers prepared his lure, a piece of meat attached to some duck feathers.
She could not sit like a duck on a pond all night, so Ava carefully began to persuade Lady Purnam to have her new barouche plucked from the stream of carriages outside to drive Ava home.
The coachman held his hand out to Ava, which she took and quickly ducked inside, landing on a thickly padded velvet squab, the same deep red color of the silk covered walls.
All that mattered was that after a moment that seemed to last a year, the dragon sighed, heaved himself out of the wallow with a groan, ducking his head to avoid the canvas awning, and stepped up onto the stone verge.
I looked at Baggy for consolation, but he was ducking behind the lady in front of him.
Ducking inside, she found the rider, Berelain, sipping tea with Amys and Bair and Sorilea, all stretched out on bright, tasseled cushions.