DUCK
Definition:
- [noun] small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
- [noun] (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
Synonyms: 's egg
- [noun] flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
- [noun] a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
- [verb] to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"
- [verb] submerge or plunge suddenly
- [verb] dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool"
Synonyms: dip, douse
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, sidestep
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Related Words:
- quibble
- 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, broadbill
- wild duck
- wood duck, summer duck, wood widgeon, Aix sponsa
- mandarin duck, Aix galericulata
- muscovy duck, musk duck, Cairina moschata
- sea duck
- duckling
