duck

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

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

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
2. (countable, uncountable) Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
3. (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
4. (countable, uncountable) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
5. (countable, slang, uncountable) A playing card with the rank of two.
6. (countable, uncountable) A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
7. (countable, uncountable) A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
8. (US, countable, uncountable) A cairn used to mark a trail.
9. (countable, uncountable) One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
10. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”).
11. (countable, uncountable) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
12. (UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
13. (US, countable, slang, uncountable) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
2. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Trousers made of such material.

Noun

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

Synonyms

dodge

evade

dive

elude

sidestep

dip

avoid

circumvent

goose

🪿

immerse

steer clear of

canvas

shirk

drake

douse

avert

plunge

souse

stoop

duck’s egg

wild duck

dunk

duckling

lean

bow

🙇

hedge

sailcloth

musk duck

dive down

dabble

black duck

submerge

yield

shrink back

whistler

fudge

swan

🦢

bob up and down

sop

skirt

ducks

canard

parry

burlap

put off

diving

defaulter

bounce

decorate

bird

🐦

Translations

canard

🦆

pato

🦆

Ente

🦆

anatra

🦆

pato

🦆

eend

🦆

πάπια

ànec

🦆

cane

🦆

anas

🦆

ánade

🦆

ördek

🦆

بطة

🦆

anitra

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dʌk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: ducken

Cognate with Old English: *dūcan

Cognate with Scots: dulk

Cognate with Middle Dutch: ducken

Cognate with Low German: ducken

Cognate with German: ducken

Cognate with Danish: dukke

Cognate with Scots: dook

Cognate with Western Frisian: dûke

Cognate with Dutch: duiken

Cognate with Low German: duken

Cognate with German: tauchen

Cognate with Swedish: dyka

Inherited from Middle English: doke

Inherited from Old English: duce

Cognate with Scots: duik

Cognate with Danish: dukand

Cognate with Swedish: dykfågel

Cognate with Middle Dutch: duycker

Cognate with Low German: düker

Cognate with German: Tuch

Cognate with Swedish: duk

Cognate with Icelandic: dúkur

Cognate with Swedish: docka

In summary

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”).
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 .

For the state bird , the white-winged wood duck , Assam is a globally important area .