ducky
8
3.0
- noun
- /ˈdʌki/
- Baby Talk
:
patito de goma
- She smiled as she squeezed her yellow ducky and watched it quack.
- rubber ducky
- yellow rubber ducky
- little ducky
So I think it's great that it came out of pacifiers and sippy cups and toys and rubber duckies.
- So I think it's great that it came out of pacifiers and sippy cups and toys and rubber duckies.
- Got some of those and realized there was enough space in them for the cables and this really tiny, you know, fake ducky, right?
- It's like, all right, rubber ducky on ice.
Examples
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The rubber ducky flotation ring pops out of the water in the foreground.
Fiction book (2002) -
Do you have a ducky?
Blog text (5) -
I offered you the rubber ducky, I offered you the tape.
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Open wide there, Rubber Ducky.
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The closest you ever got to the Navy was your rubber ducky.
Fiction book (1997) -
Claire showing Aerin how to play with the rubber ducky
Blog text (34) -
This seemingly ordinary rubber ducky actually contains invisibility spray.
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We don't even have a rubber ducky to float in the bathwater.
Fiction book (2002) -
The child giggled as he floated his new ducky in the bathtub.
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At the party, the kids took turns playing with a bright, floating ducky in the pool.
Synonyms
1
3.7
A small toy shaped like a duck that floats in the bath
A small duck-shaped toy that makes a quacking sound when pressed
How Realistic
- Baby Talk
8
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ducky for a small duck or a toy comes from duck plus the friendly ending -y, so it literally means 'little duck'. Think of the yellow bath toy children hold, and you will remember a ducky is a small real duck or a little toy duck.