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duck

duck

75 1.0
Meat from the water bird often eaten as food
  • noun
  • /dʌk/
: pato
  • The men and I have decided to have roast Long Island duck tonight with wild rice.

I say, what do you say is duck seafood?

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Examples

  • Here is my duck about to go into the oven.

  • One moment the duck is too rare, the next moment the duck is dried out.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • I swear, Dave, that is the best duck that I've ever eaten in my entire life.

  • Bill ordered pizza made with warm duck, and she had cappelletti with fresh tomato and basil.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • The chef is featuring foie gras with smoked duck and figs on a hill of bulgur.

  • For dinner, we enjoyed a delicious duck roasted with herbs and served with vegetables.

  • At the restaurant, I ordered the crispy duck served with a sweet orange sauce.

  • The chef recommended the grilled duck as the specialty of the day.

Synonyms

duckling
vsduck
1 3.2

Meat from a young duck served as food

means meat of the species in general rather than only from young domestic birds

Idioms

duck soup
  • Archaic
1 6.1

A task that is very easy to do

can a duck swim
  • Informal
1 9.5

A question people ask to show the answer is clearly yes

Have a first success after trying and failing

9.9

A situation when you must give full effort or you get nothing

Compounds

lame duck
  • Literature
41 7.4

An elected leader still in office who has lost real power

sitting duck
  • Informal
33 6.8

Something that others can harm or take advantage of

8 3.2

An outdoor activity where people shoot ducks for food or sport

dead duck
  • Informal
6 8.6

A person or thing sure to fail

5 2.2

A thick sweet and sour sauce served with Chinese food

2 2.0

A water bird like a mallard that lives in lakes and rivers and is not kept by people

2 2.8

A person who hunts ducks for sport or food

2 5.9

Having a beak or snout like a duck's

2 5.8

A brightly colored North American duck that nests in tree holes near water

1 7.2

A mammal from Australia that lays eggs and has a duck-like bill and webbed feet

A small brightly colored duck from East Asia often kept by people

1 6.0

A dark brown duck found in eastern North America

1 8.3

A large duck from Central and South America kept for meat and eggs

A large plant-eating dinosaur with a long, flat beak like a duck

1 7.8

A duck that lives and feeds in muddy water

1 7.1

A small duck with a reddish-brown body and a stiff tail

1 7.4

A diving duck with a purplish head often seen in lakes

1 5.8

A large diving bird that lives by the sea and dives for food

1 6.7

A large sea duck from northern coasts whose female gives soft down used in quilts and pillows

duck shot
  • Specialized
1 7.2

Small metal balls put in shotgun shells for hunting ducks

1 3.9

A duck that swims underwater to find food, often in lakes or bays

1 2.8

Soft fine feathers from a duck used to fill warm bedding and clothing

1 8.1

A large wild North American duck with a sloping profile and red head prized by hunters for its meat

1 8.4

A diving duck from North America with a blue-grey bill that lives in lakes and near the sea

1 6.5

A fake duck made of wood or plastic that hunters use to attract real ducks

queer duck
  • Archaic
1 9.6

A person who acts in a strange or unusual way

cold duck
  • Archaic
1 9.3

A pink sparkling wine that people make by mixing red and white wines and serve cold

A medium diving bird whose male has a purple head and a blue bill

golden duck
  • Jargon
1 9.0

Being out for zero runs on the first ball a batsman faces in cricket

A duck that feeds by tipping its head into shallow water while its tail stays up

1 7.8

A large diving duck with a crest and a thin hooked bill for catching fish

9.9

A funny, scary-looking duck figure used in jokes or shows

A small duck-shaped toy that makes a quacking sound when pressed

A smooth spread made from duck liver, often served on bread

9.9

A habit of preferring the first way you learn and resisting later changes

8.0

A large wild duck with a crest that people raise for meat and eggs

A duck with a long neck and long thin tail feathers

9.0

A colorful North American bird that nests in holes in trees

How Fatty

pork belly
9 3.4
goose
18 1.0
duck
75 1.0
chicken
960 1.0
rabbit
14 1.0

Surface Forms

duck singular
ducks plural

Etymology

Duck for the meat simply takes its name from the bird, so when you order duck you are eating that bird's flesh.