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单词 duck
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duck

See also: Duck

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dŭk, IPA(key): /dʌk/
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  • Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1

From Middle English *dukken, from Old English *ducan, *duccan (“to duck”); a secondary verb akin to Middle English 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”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb- (“deep, hollow”) (whence Proto-Germanic *dūbaną (“to dive”)).

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”).

Verb

duck (third-person singular simple present ducks, present participle ducking, simple past and past participle ducked)

  1. (intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
    Duck! There's a branch falling off the tree!
  2. (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
    • c. 1729, Jonathan Swift, To Dr. Delany on the Libels Written Against Him
      As some raw youth in country bred,
      To arms by thirst of honour led,
      When at a skirmish first he hears
      The bullets whistling round his ears,
      Will duck his head aside
    • 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
      Rimmer ducked his body low into his chair, so just his head remained above the table top, and peered past the backs of the examinees in front of him, waiting for the adjudicator to make his move.
  3. (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
    • 1743, Henry Fielding, The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), 3rd edition, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 1157347657:
      Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub.
  4. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
    • 1693, Aulus Persius Flaccus; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus.] The Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745, page 22:
      […] In Tiber ducking thrice, by break of day […]
  5. (intransitive) To bow.
    • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii], page 90, column 2:
      The Learned pate / Duckes to the Golden Foole.
  6. (transitive) To evade doing something.
    • 2018 July 21, Kathryn Hughes, “The strange cult of Emily Brontë and the 'hot mess' of Wuthering Heights”, in The Guardian‎:
      Victorian women choosing to duck the demands of domestic life to spend their time doing something they enjoyed is hardly a novel idea.
  7. (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
    • 2007, Alexander U. Case, Sound FX: unlocking the creative potential of recording studio effects, page 183:
      The music is ducked under the voice.
  8. (intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.
    I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute, can you hold my bag?
Synonyms
  • (to lower the head): duck down
  • (to lower into the water): dip, dunk
  • (to lower in order to prevent it from being struck by something): dip
Coordinate terms
  • (to lower the head or body to prevent it from being struck): hit the deck
Derived terms
  • duck and cover
  • duck down
  • duck out
Translations
to quickly lower the head or body (intransitive)

Noun

duck (plural ducks)

  1. (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
A duck sitting on a brick wall.

Etymology 2

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”), Middle Dutch duycker (“diver”), Low German düker (“diver”).

Alternative forms

  • ducke (obsolete)

Noun

duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks)

  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. (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
  4. (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
  5. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
  6. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
    A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
    • 2007, Cynthia Blair, "It Happened on Long Island: 1988—Suffolk County Adopts the Big Duck," Newsday, 21 Feb.:
      The Big Duck has influenced the world of architecture; any building that is shaped like its product is called a ‘duck’.
  7. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
  8. (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
  9. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
  10. (finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
  11. (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.
  12. (UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
Hyponyms
  • (bird): Anas platyrhynchos (domesticus), Mallard-derived domestic breeds, including Pekin, Rouen, Campbell, Call, Runner; Cairina moschata, Muscovy duck
Derived terms
  • all duck or no dinner
  • American black duck
  • baby duck syndrome
  • baby duck syndrome
  • Beijing duck
  • Black Duck
  • black-headed duck
  • blue duck
  • Bombay duck
  • box of fluffy ducks
  • Brahminy duck
  • break one's duck, break the duck
  • buffel duck
  • Burdekin duck
  • burrow duck
  • can a duck
  • can a duck swim
  • chance the ducks
  • could eat the arse out of a low flying duck
  • could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck
  • could eat the crutch from a low flying duck
  • dabbling duck
  • dead duck
  • decoy-duck
  • decoy duck
  • demon duck of doom
  • diamond duck
  • diving duck
  • divvy duck
  • domestic duck
  • don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks
  • duck ague
  • duck and dive
  • duck ant
  • duck-arsed
  • duck arsed
  • duck-bill
  • duckbill
  • duck-billed
  • duck-billed cat
  • duck-billed dinosaur
  • duck-billed platypus
  • duckboard
  • duck butter
  • duck call
  • duck clam
  • duck curve
  • duck decoy
  • duck decoy
  • duck derby
  • duck dive
  • duck-drownder
  • duck egg
  • duck-egg blue
  • duck fart
  • duck-footed
  • duck hawk
  • duck-hawk
  • duck itch
  • duckkind
  • duck-legged
  • duckling
  • duck mole
  • duckness
  • duck on a rock
  • duck on drake
  • duck on the rock
  • duck potato
  • duck press
  • duck race
  • ducks and drakes
  • ducks and geese
  • duck sauce
  • ducks guts
  • ducks on the pond
  • duck soup
  • duck stamp
  • duck tape
  • duck test
  • duck test
  • duck tour
  • duck typing
  • duck walk
  • ferruginous duck
  • Field-lane duck
  • fine weather for ducks
  • fluffy duck
  • freckled duck
  • fuck a duck
  • fuzzy duck
  • German duck
  • go hunting where the ducks are
  • golden duck
  • Gressingham duck
  • harlequin duck
  • have one's ducks in a row
  • hunt where the ducks are
  • hunt where the ducks were
  • if it looks like a duck
  • Indian whistling duck
  • Labrador duck
  • lame duck
  • lame-duck
  • Laysan duck
  • lesser whistling duck
  • like a duck takes to water
  • like a duck to water
  • like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
  • like water off a duck's back
  • line up one's ducks
  • loggerhead duck
  • long-tailed duck
  • Lord love a duck
  • love a duck
  • lovely weather for ducks
  • lucky duck
  • mandarin duck
  • Mexican duck
  • milkshake duck
  • mottled duck
  • mud duck
  • Muscovy duck
  • musk duck
  • nice weather for ducks
  • odd duck
  • one little duck
  • out for a duck
  • Pekin duck
  • Peking duck
  • pink-eared duck
  • pintail duck
  • platinum duck
  • pressed duck
  • quack like a duck
  • queer duck
  • raft duck
  • raven's duck
  • ring-necked duck
  • roan duck
  • royal duck
  • rubber duck
  • rubber-duck
  • rubber duck debugging
  • ruddy duck
  • ruptured duck
  • savoury duck
  • sea duck
  • shelduck
  • sitting duck
  • spirit duck
  • spotted whistling duck
  • squawk duck
  • St. Cuthbert's duck
  • steamer duck
  • step on a duck
  • stiff-tailed duck
  • surf duck
  • take to something like a duck to water
  • torrent duck
  • tree duck
  • tufted duck
  • unsinkable rubber duck
  • velvet duck
  • wandering whistling duck
  • water off a duck
  • whew duck
  • whistling duck
  • white-headed duck
  • wood duck
  • Zhangcha duck
Translations
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See also

  • anatine
  • drake
  • goose
  • quack
  • swan
  • waterfowl

References

  • Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
  • (faggot, meatball): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 3

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.

Alternative forms

  • dook, doock (Scotland)

Noun

duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks)

  1. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
    • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from Selected Short Stories:
      He was dressed in a Jaeger vest—a pair of blue duck trousers, fastened round the waist with a plaited leather belt.
  2. (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
    • 1918 March, Rebecca West [pseudonym; Cicily Isabel Fairfield], chapter III, in The Return of the Soldier, 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 222017629, pages 67–68:
      And they would go up and find old Allington, in white ducks, standing in the fringe of long grasses and cow-parsley on the other edge of the island, looking to his poultry or his rabbits.
    • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 74:
      A native servant emerged, anonymous in his white ducks and red fez, to say My Player was wanted on the telephone.
Derived terms
  • duck tape
Translations

Etymology 4

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”).

Noun

duck (plural ducks)

  1. A term of endearment; pet; darling.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii], page 75, column 2:
      […] and hold-faſt is the onely Dogge: My Ducke […]
  2. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
    Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?
Synonyms
  • See Thesaurus:friend
Derived terms
  • ay up me duck
  • duckie

References

  • duck at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • Birks, Steve (2005-01-26), “The history of the Potteries dialect”, in BBC‎, retrieved 2014-11-19

German

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ʊk

Verb

duck

  1. singular imperative of ducken

Middle English

Noun

duck

  1. Alternative form of duk (“duke”)
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