duck

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Meaning

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.

dodge

steer clear of

duck’s egg

wild duck

dive down

black duck

yield

bob up and down

quack-quack

shoveller duck

the paper

Anatidae

a wild duck

be bent

endeavor not to meet

jump about

keep away from

keep clear of

mallard duck

wood duck

young bird

drag into

move down quickly

push down into the water

amphibious aircraft

canvasback duck

pink-eared duck

sack cloth

dip to immerse

amphibious plane

hessian linen

gunny cloth

abstain from

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dʌk/

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”).