A gathering of young birds from many different families.
Cold Duck
A beverage made of sparkling Burgundy and champagne.
Dead Duck
A person or thing that is ruined. A goner.
Decoy Duck
A bait or lure; a duck taught to allure others into a net, and employed for this purpose.
Dirty Duck
Black swan.
Drake
The male of the duck species.
Down [noun]
A covering of soft fluffy feathers.
Downy Young
A duckling whose feathers have not yet appeared.
Duck [noun]
1A: Any of various swimming birds (family Anatidae) in which the neck and legs are short, the body more or less depressed, the bill often broad and flat, and the sexes almost always different from each other in plumage. 1B: The flesh of any of these birds used as food. 2. A female duck. Compare drake, a male duck. 3. Darling, often used in plural 4. Person, creature. 5. A durable closely woven usually cotton fabric 6. Light clothes made of duck 7. An amphibious truck. 8. Male urinal pan. 9. Young woman, a woman considered sexually. 10. Total jerk/ social outcast. 11. Eccentric, case, character, oddball, oddity, original, quiz, spook, wack, zombie.
Duck [verb]
From old English "ducan", to dive. 1. To thrust under water 2: To move or lower, as the head, quickly: bow, bob, dodge 3. Avoid, evade 4. To plunge under the surface of water, to descend suddenly, dip 5. To evade a duty, question, or responsibility, back out. 6. Douse, dunk, immerse, souse, submerge, submerse. 7. Dip, stoop, bend, bow. 8. Dodge, fence, parry, shirk, sidestep, avert, prevent, ward. 9. Escape, avoid, bilk, double, elude, eschew, evade, sun, shy.
Duck Blind
A shelter, often camouflaged with reeds and grasses, for concealing duck hunters.
Duck Bumps
Goose bumps.
Duck Butt
A person of short stature, especially with a large posterior.
Duck Butter
Semen, smegma.
Duck Egg
A score or grade of zero.
Duck Fit
A noisy fit of anger.
Duck Foot
A snow boarding term referring to a stance in which the front binding is rotated towards the nose of the board, while the back binding is rotated towards the tail of the board (it is more common for both bindings to be angled in the same direction - towards the board's nose.)
Duck Shoot
Something very easy, a cinch.
Duck Soup
Anything easily done, cinch. A snap, a breeze, child's play, a cinch, kid stuff, a picnic, a pushover, a setup.
Duck Squeezer
A conservationist and environmentalist.
Duck Symbolism
As floating on the surface it is superficiality; it is also chatter and deceit. Amerindian: The moderator between sky and water. Chinese and Japanese: Conjugal happiness and fidelity; felicity; beauty. The duck and drake together depict the union of lovers; mutual consideration; fidelity. The duck is yin to the cock's yang. Egyptian: Associated with Isis. Hebrew: Immortality. (Source: J.C. Cooper, An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols)
Duck Walk
To move forward while squatting on one's haunches.
Duckettes
Money.
Duckies
Money.
Duckleberry
The penis.
Duckling
A young duck.
Ducks
Term of endearment meaning dear one or precious.
Ducks and Drakes
1. the pastime of skimming flat stones or shells along the surface of calm water 2. Use recklessly, squander.
Duck's Egg
Broke his duck's egg. Took his first school prize. In cricket a "duck's egg" or 0 in a score is broken by a run.
Ducktail or Duck's Ass
A 1950s haircut tapered in back so that it resembles a duck's tail.
Ducky
1. Excellent, splendid, often used ironically 2. Cute, too cute 3. Dear one, precious.
Dump Nesting
The laying of eggs by more than one female in a communal nest.
Fledging Period
The period between hatching and first flight.
Flightless Period
The period when adult ducks cannot fly, between molting and regrowth.
Fuck a Duck
An exclamation of surprise and incredulity.
Have or Get One's Ducks in a Row
To be fully prepared; to be organized.
Hen or Duck
The female of the duck species.
Lame Duck
1. A public official who has lost an election or one who is permitted by law to seek reelection for an additional term but is serving out a term. 2. A speculator who has taken options on stocks he or she cannot pay for.
Mallard
Most common duck known. The male is called a Greenhead and the female is called a Suzie.
Molt
The shedding of old feathers.
Pair-bond
The prolonged association of a male and female.
Pen
A drake and four to five hens (Pertains to domestic ducks. Wild ducks are monogamous.)
Pipping
The action of a duckling using the egg tooth to break open the egg.
Quack
1. To make the characteristic cry of a duck. 2. A noise made by quacking. 3. A pretender to medical skill. Pretending to cure diseases. 4. To play the quack.
Quackery
The practice of quacks.
Raft
A closely-packed group of ducks on the water surface.
Ruptured (or Pregnant) Duck
A lapel pin, featuring an eagle rather than a duck, given to veterans honorably discharged after WW2.
Sitting Duck
An easy target or victim.
Trio
A drake and two hens (Pertains to domestic ducks. Wild ducks are monogamous.)
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