duck

Meaning

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).

Concepts

duck

dodge

evade

elude

sidestep

dive

dip

avoid

circumvent

avert

shirk

steer clear of

douse

plunge

drake

canvas

goose

immerse

souse

stoop

dunk

bow

lean

duckling

hedge

sailcloth

duck’s egg

wild duck

canard

bob up and down

dive down

swan

fudge

parry

put off

skirt

diving

yield

sop

submerge

burlap

ducks

black duck

musk duck

shrink back

dabble

whistler

rag

the paper

adorn

bedeck

decorate

embellish

ornament

abstain from

endeavor not to meet

keep away from

keep clear of

shun

be bent

cower

hunched

drench

get rid of

imbue

saturate

sink

soak

draw back

shrug

burrow

go through

bounce

hop

waggle

drop

lower

move down quickly

jump about

move up

up and down

push down into the water

slip

beat around the bush

drag into

lame duck

defaulter

cringe

back out

withdraw

make off

dip to immerse

twilight

confusion

steep

submerse

sackcloth

bedpan

amphibian

amphibious aircraft

amphibious plane

gunny

gunny cloth

hessian linen

lint

sack cloth

Anatidae

young bird

waterfowl

shoveller duck

hooded

pink-eared duck

widgeon

wood duck

quack-quack

baptise

baptize

christen

puddle

bend

bow down

plummet

clear

equivocate

fend off

bend down

nod

grebe

bird

hunch

cannet

a wild duck

canvasback duck

mallard duck

whistling

little

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dʌk/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

My advice is duck and cross with your right .