ducking duck hunting | hunting ducks |
ducks and drakes | a game in which a flat stone is bounced along the surface of calm water |
cinch breeze picnic snap duck soup child's play pushover walkover piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
water ouzel dipper | small stocky diving bird without webbed feet, frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom |
hadrosaur hadrosaurus duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
duck | small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs |
diving duck | any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food |
dabbling duck dabbler | any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling |
black duck Anas rubripes | a dusky duck of northeastern United States and Canada |
pintail pin-tailed duck Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
ruddy duck Oxyura jamaicensis | reddish-brown stiff-tailed duck of North America and northern South America |
bufflehead butterball dipper Bucephela albeola | small North American diving duck, males have bushy head plumage |
canvasback canvasback duck Aythya valisineria | North American wild duck valued for sport and food |
scaup scaup duck bluebill broadbill | diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill |
lesser scaup lesser scaup duck lake duck Aythya affinis | common scaup of North America, males have purplish heads |
wild duck | an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard) |
wood duck summer duck wood widgeon Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
mandarin duck Aix galericulata | showy crested Asiatic duck, often domesticated |
muscovy duck musk duck Cairina moschata | large crested wild duck of Central America and South America, widely domesticated |
sea duck | any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider, scoter, merganser |
eider eider duck | duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females |
merganser fish duck sawbill sheldrake | large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges |
platypus duckbill duckbilled platypus duck-billed platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
duck down | down of the duck |
ruddy turnstone Arenaria interpres | common Arctic turnstone that winters in South America and Australia |
Donald Duck | a fictional duck created in animated film strips by Walt Disney |
bird shot buckshot duck shot | small lead shot for shotgun shells |
dipper | a ladle that has a cup with a long handle |
duck | a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave, used for clothing and tents |
roller coaster big dipper chute-thehute | elevated railway in an amusement park (usually with sharp curves and steep inclines) |
duck | flesh of a duck (domestic or wild) |
duck sauce hoisin sauce | a thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment |
duck pate | a pate made from duck liver |
cold duck | pink sparkling wine originally from Germany |
Church of the Brethren Dunkers Dippers | a Baptist denomination founded inby Americans of German descent, opposed to military service and taking legal oaths, practiced trine immersion |
Big Dipper Dipper Plough Charles's Wain Wain Wagon | a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major |
Little Dipper Dipper | a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor, at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris |
double dipper | someone who draws two incomes from the government (usually by combining a salary and a pension) |
duck hunter | hunter of ducks |
kook odd fellow odd fish queer bird queer duck odd man out d | someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group |
lame duck | an elected official still in office but not slated to continue |
sitting duck easy mark | a defenseless victim |
skinny-dipper | a naked swimmer |
duck duck's egg | (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman |
dead duck | something doomed to failure, he finally admitted that the legislation was a dead duck, the idea of another TV channel is now a dead duck, as theories go, that's a dead duck |
b hedge fudge evade put off circumvent parry elude skirt dodge duck sidestep | avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues), He dodged the issue, she skirted the problem, They tend to evade their responsibilities, he evaded the questions skillfully |
duck | to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away, Before he could duck, another stone struck him |
duck | submerge or plunge suddenly |
dip douse duck | dip into a liquid, He dipped into the pool |
duckbill duck-billed | having a beak resembling that of a duck, a duck-billed dinosaur |