name
Meaning 1
A surname transferred from the nickname.
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name
A surname transferred from the nickname.
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name
A town in North Carolina.
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name
An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
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noun
A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
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Topics: caving, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
Any of certain aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet, distinguished from swans and geese by generally being smaller and shorter-necked.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: duckess
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noun
The flesh of a duck used as food.
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Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: duckflesh, duckmeat
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noun
A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A playing card with the rank of two.
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Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
Ellipsis of architectural duck; a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
Synonyms: duck building
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noun
A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A cairn used to mark a trail.
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Usage: US, countable, uncountable
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noun
One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
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noun
Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”).
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Usage: countable, dated, slang, uncountable
Topics: business, finance
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Synonyms: lame duck
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noun
A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
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Usage: UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
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noun
Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
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Usage: US, countable, slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: bitch
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noun
A tightly-woven cotton or linen fabric, often used as sailcloth.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: duckcloth, sailduck
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Broader terms: cloth, fabric, textile, material, matter, stuff
noun
Trousers made of such material.
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Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
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noun
A term of endearment; pet; darling.
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noun
Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
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Usage: Midlands
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verb
To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To bow.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
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Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To enter a place for a short moment.
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Usage: colloquial, intransitive
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verb
To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).
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Usage: transitive
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noun
small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
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Broader terms: anseriform bird
Narrower terms: drake, quack-quack, duckling, diving duck, dabbling duck, dabbler, mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, black duck, Anas rubripes, teal, widgeon, wigeon, Anas penelope, shoveler, shoveller, broadbill, Anas clypeata, pintail, pin-tailed duck, Anas acuta, sheldrake, ruddy duck, Oxyura jamaicensis, bufflehead, butterball, dipper, Bucephela albeola, goldeneye, whistler, Bucephela clangula, canvasback, canvasback duck, Aythya valisineria, pochard, Aythya ferina, redhead, Aythya americana, scaup, scaup duck, bluebill, wild duck, wood duck, summer duck, wood widgeon, Aix sponsa, mandarin duck, Aix galericulata, muscovy duck, musk duck, Cairina moschata, sea duck
noun
a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
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Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
noun
flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
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Broader terms: poultry
Narrower terms: duckling
noun
(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
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Synonyms: duck's egg
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Broader terms: score
verb
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, sidestep
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Broader terms: avoid
Narrower terms: beg, quibble
verb
to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
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Broader terms: move
verb
submerge or plunge suddenly
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Broader terms: dive, plunge, plunk
verb
dip into a liquid
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Synonyms: dip, douse
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Broader terms: dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse
History
The surname is originally a nickname from Middle English doke (“duck”). See duck.
From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”). Cognates Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”).
From Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, dūce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dive, bend down”). See verb above. Cognates Cognate with Scots duik, duke, dook (“duck”), Danish dukand, dykand (“sea-duck”), Swedish dykfågel (“a diver, diving bird, plungeon”), Dutch duiker (“diving bird, loon”, literally “diver, dipper, plunger”), German Low German Düker (“diving bird, loon”, literally “diver”), German Taucher (“diving bird, loon, grebe”, literally “diver, plunger”). For the meaning development compare Russian ныро́к (nyrók, “pochard”) (< ныря́ть (nyrjátʹ, “to dive”)).
From Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doeck, doec (“linen cloth”), from Old Dutch *dōc, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwōg-, *dwōk-. Cognate with German Tuch (“cloth”), Swedish duk (“cloth, canvas”), Icelandic dúkur (“cloth, fabric”). Doublet of doek.
Potteries dialect, Black Country dialect and dialects of the former territory of Mercia (central England). Compare Danish dukke (“doll”), Swedish docka (“baby; doll”), dialectal English doxy (“sweetheart”).
Denominal verb of duck (noun) and ellipsis of rubber duck
Across languages
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