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duck

duck

138 1.0
Meat from the water bird often eaten as food
  • noun
  • /dʌk/
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  • 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

Have a first success after trying and failing

can a duck swim
  • Informal
9.5

A question people ask to show the answer is clearly yes

9.9

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

Compounds

sitting duck
  • Informal
33 6.8

Something that others can harm or take advantage of

lame duck
  • Literature
30 7.4

An elected leader still in office who has lost real power

7 3.2

An outdoor activity where people shoot ducks for food or sport

dead duck
  • Informal
4 8.6

A person or thing sure to fail

3 2.2

A thick sweet and sour sauce served with Chinese food

2 2.8

A person who hunts ducks for sport or food

2 5.9

Having a beak or snout like a duck's

1 5.8

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

1 2.0

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

1 6.0

A dark brown duck found in eastern North America

1 3.9

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

1 8.4

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

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

1 7.2

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

1 7.4

A diving duck with a purplish head often seen in lakes

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

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

cold duck
  • Archaic
9.3

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

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

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

9.9

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

2.8

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

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

duck shot
  • Specialized
7.2

Small metal balls put in shotgun shells for hunting ducks

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

9.9

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

7.8

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

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

7.8

A duck that lives and feeds in muddy water

8.3

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

8.0

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

golden duck
  • Jargon
9.0

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

queer duck
  • Archaic
9.6

A person who acts in a strange or unusual way

7.1

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

A duck with a long neck and long thin tail feathers

8.4

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

5.8

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

9.0

A colorful North American bird that nests in holes in trees

How Fatty

pork belly
6 3.4
goose
24 1.0
duck
138 1.0
chicken
586 1.0
rabbit
23 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.