duck
- noun
- /dʌk/
- 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?
- I say, what do you say is duck seafood?
- It was a BBQ duck and it was delicious.
- Paul bypassed the house specialty, which was pressed duck in favor of fish.
- But I believe eating a duck that you find in a pond, I'm OK with that.
- They got the, you know, they have the balut duck eggs.
- So he gave a full duck and pancakes once in the Chinese.
Examples
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Here is my duck about to go into the oven.
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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.
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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.
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For dinner, we enjoyed a delicious duck roasted with herbs and served with vegetables.
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At the restaurant, I ordered the crispy duck served with a sweet orange sauce.
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The chef recommended the grilled duck as the specialty of the day.
Synonyms
Meat from a young duck served as food
Idioms
Compounds
A water bird like a mallard that lives in lakes and rivers and is not kept by people
- Australian
A mammal from Australia that lays eggs and has a duck-like bill and webbed feet
A large wild North American duck with a sloping profile and red head prized by hunters for its meat
- Archaic
A pink sparkling wine that people make by mixing red and white wines and serve cold
A large sea duck from northern coasts whose female gives soft down used in quilts and pillows
- Jargon
A habit of preferring the first way you learn and resisting later changes
- US
A diving duck from North America with a blue-grey bill that lives in lakes and near the sea
How Fatty
Surface Forms
Etymology
Duck for the meat simply takes its name from the bird, so when you order duck you are eating that bird's flesh.