duck

Signification

Verb

1. To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
2. To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
3. To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
4. To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
5. To bow.
6. To evade doing something.
7. To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
8. (colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.

Noun

A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.

Noun

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. The flesh of a duck used as food.
4. 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.
7. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
8. 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. (slang) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
11. A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
12. (obsolete,slang) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
13. (slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).

Noun

1. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
2. Trousers made of such material.

Noun

1. A term of endearment; pet; darling.
2. Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dʌk/

Étymologie

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”), 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”).

Phrases

My advice is duck and cross with your right .

Mon conseil est Duck and Cross avec votre droit.