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59 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —
  • duck v. (Intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
  • duck v. (Transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
  • duck v. (Transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
  • duck v. (Intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one’s head into…
  • duck v. (Intransitive) To bow.
  • duck v. (Transitive) To evade doing something.
  • duck v. (Transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
  • duck v. (Intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.
  • duck n. (Caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
  • duck n. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
  • duck n. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
  • duck n. (Uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
  • duck n. (Cricket) A batsman’s score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck’s egg, since the digit "0" is…
  • duck n. (Slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
  • duck n. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
  • duck n. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children’s games.
  • duck n. (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
  • duck n. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
  • duck n. (Finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”).
  • duck n. (Medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.
  • duck n. (UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
  • duck n. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
  • duck n. (In the plural) Trousers made of such material.
  • duck n. A term of endearment; pet; darling.
  • duck n. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
  • Duck prop.n. A surname transferred from the nickname.
  • Duck prop.n. A town in North Carolina.
  • Duck prop.n. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
— Foreign word, define in English —
  • Middle english
    • duck n. Alternative form of duk (“duke”).
— English words, defined in German —
  • duck S. Allgemein: Ente.
  • duck S. Speziell: erwachsene, weibliche Ente [1].
  • duck S. Kein Plural: Ente, Entenfleisch.
  • duck V. Sich ducken.
— English words, defined in Dutch —
  • duck n. Eend.
  • duck w. Duiken, wegduiken.
— English words, defined in French —
  • duck n. (Ornithologie) Canard (mâle ou femelle).
  • duck n. (Ornithologie) (En particulier) Cane (canard femelle) adulte, par opposition au canard mâle.
  • duck n. Canard (viande).
  • duck n. Action d’esquiver.
  • duck n. (Cricket) Score de zéro.
  • duck v. Esquiver, plonger, (se) baisser vivement, coucher.
  • duck v. Tremper, immerger, faire boire la tasse.
  • duck v. Parer, s’abstenir de, éviter, défiler.
— English words, defined in Spanish —
  • duck s. Zoología. Pato.
  • duck s. Zoología. Pata, hembra del pato.
  • duck s. Agachada.
  • duck v. Agachar, agacharse.
  • duck v. Zambullir.
  • duck v. Inclinarse.
  • duck v. Esquivar.
— English words, defined in Portuguese —
  • duck s. Pato.
  • duck s. Bengala.
  • duck s. Reverência.
  • duck s. Mergulho.
  • duck v. Mergulhar rapidamente.
  • duck v. Inclinar (a cabeça).
— English words, defined in Italian —
  • duck s. (Zoologia) (gastronomia) anatra.
  • duck s. (Araldica) anatrella.
— In German —
  • duck V. 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ducken.
183 English words from 29 English definitions

addressing adult a␣flat after airspace Alternative and another aquatic batsman being bill bird body bow building cairn can cannot card Carolina cave Caving children clearly community constructed containing contracts contrasted cotton Cricket curve darling dated Dear digit doing drake drawing duck duckling duke egg endearment enter evade everyday fabric faggot family feet female Finance flat flesh food for form friend from fulfil games getting getting␣out go␣under having head heard hold immediately informal in␣order in␣order␣to in␣place intentionally into Intransitive lame lame␣duck liquid long long-necked low lower made made␣of marble mark mate material meatball medical Medicine men Midlands mix moment more necked nickname North North␣Carolina object obsolete of␣a of␣an offal often one order other out passage pet place playing playing␣card plunge plural prevent purpose quickly rank reappear related sailcloth score shape shooter short Short␣for shot since slang something so␣that sound sounds Specifically spline stranger struck such suddenly surface surname Synonym term term␣of␣endearment that the their thrust tightly To␣go town trail transferred Transitive Trousers two Uncountable under unincorporated urinal used used␣to Virginia volume water way webbed webbed␣feet weights West West␣Virginia which who with withdraw woven zero

22 English words from 30 foreign definitions

Action canard Cane coucher Cricket del des faire hembra opposition par Parer Pata pato Person Plural Score Sich Singular tasse Tremper Verbs

52 foreign words from 30 foreign definitions

abstenir adulte Agachada Agachar agacharse Aktiv Allgemein anatra anatrella Araldica baisser Bengala boire boire␣la␣tasse cabeça défiler ducken Duiken Eend En␣particulier Ente Entenfleisch erwachsene Esquivar esquiver éviter faire␣boire femelle gastronomia immerger Imperativ Inclinar Inclinarse Kein mâle Mergulhar Mergulho Ornithologie particulier plonger Präsens rapidamente Reverência s’abstenir Speziell viande vivement wegduiken weibliche Zambullir zéro Zoología

220 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

ducke ducks ducky ducked ducker Ducker duckes ducket duckie duckin' duckly duckano duck␣ant duck␣egg duckers Duckers duckery duckess duckets Duckett duckier duckies ducking duckish duckism ducklet duckman Duckman duckmen duck␣out duckpin duckable duck␣ague duckanoo duckanos duck␣ants duckbill duck-bill Duckburg duck␣call duck␣clam duckdive duck␣dive duck␣down duck␣eggs duckerer duckface duck␣fart duckfeet duckfoot +170 words

152 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

beducks beducked geoducks goeducks gweducks haiducks hayducks heiducks heyducks mud␣ducks odd␣ducks seaducks sea␣ducks unducked beducking blue␣ducks dead␣ducks gooducken just␣ducky lame-ducks lame␣ducks musk␣ducks raft␣ducks roan␣ducks sailducks Shadducks shelducks surf␣ducks tree␣ducks turducken whew␣ducks wood␣ducks crocoducks Daffy␣Ducks decoy-ducks decoy␣ducks divvy␣ducks DuckDuckGo eiderducks gooduckens Jemmy␣Ducks lucky␣ducks Pekin␣ducks queer␣ducks royal␣ducks ruddy␣ducks sheldducks shellducks shielducks turduckens +102 words

124 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

beduck geoduck goeduck gweduck haiduck hayduck heiduck heyduck mud␣duck odd␣duck seaduck sea␣duck antiduck blue␣duck can␣a␣duck dead␣duck lame-duck lame␣duck lovaduck luvaduck musk␣duck raft␣duck roan␣duck sailduck Shadduck shelduck surf␣duck tree␣duck whew␣duck wood␣duck Black␣Duck crocoduck Daffy␣Duck decoy-duck decoy␣duck divvy␣duck eiderduck fuckaduck fuck␣a␣duck fuzzy␣duck loveaduck love␣a␣duck lucky␣duck luvvaduck Pekin␣duck queer␣duck ravenduck royal␣duck ruddy␣duck sheldduck +74 words

2 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

uck Uck

2 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

cud CUD

5 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

ducke ducks ducky Dueck suck'd

14 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

CDK CDU CKD cud CUD d*ck DCU DKC Kuc ucd UCD uck Uck UDC

39 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

buck Buck cuck dack Dack deck dick Dick dock Dock Duca duce Duce duci duco duct dunk Dunk dusk Dyck fuck guck Guck huck Huck Kuck luck Luck muck Muck puck Puck ruck Ruck suck tuck Tuck yuck Zuck

3 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

d*ck uck Uck

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

Dueck


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