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You can make 2 words from duck according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of duck

duck udck dcuk cduk ucdk cudk dukc udkc dkuc kduc ukdc kudc dcku cdku dkcu kdcu ckdu kcdu uckd cukd ukcd kucd ckud kcud

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Definitions and meaning of duck

duck

Pronunciation

• enPR: dŭk, IPA^(key): /dʌk/
• Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1

From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb- (“deep, hollow”) (whence Proto-Germanic *dūbaną (“to dive”)).

Verb

duck (third-person singular simple present ducks, present participle ducking, simple past and past participle ducked)

1. (intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

2. (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
3. (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
4. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
5. (intransitive) To bow.
6. (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something.
7. (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
8. (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.

Synonyms

• (to lower the head): duck down
• (to lower into the water): dip, dunk
• (to lower in order to prevent it from being struck by something): dip

Coordinate terms

• (to lower the head or body to prevent it from being struck): hit the deck

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

duck (plural ducks)

1. (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.

Etymology 2

From Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, dūce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dive, bend down”). See verb above.

Alternative forms

• ducke (obsolete)

Noun

duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks or duck)

1. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
2. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
3. (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
4. (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
5. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
6. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.

   A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
7. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
8. (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
9. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
10. (finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
11. (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
12. (UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal.
13. (US, LGBT, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).

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References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
• (faggot, meatball): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 3

From Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doeck, doec (“linen cloth”), from Old Dutch *dōc, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwōg-, *dwōk-. Cognate with German Tuch (“cloth”), Swedish duk (“cloth, canvas”), Icelandic dúkur (“cloth, fabric”). Doublet of doek.

Alternative forms

• dook, doock (Scotland)

Noun

duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks)

2. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
3. (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.

Derived terms

• duck tape

Related terms

• deech

Translations

Etymology 4

Potteries dialect, Black Country dialect and dialects of the former territory of Mercia (central England). Compare Danish dukke (“doll”), Swedish docka (“baby; doll”), dialectal English doxy (“sweetheart”).

Noun

duck (plural ducks)

1. A term of endearment; pet; darling.
2. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).

   Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:friend

Derived terms

• ay up me duck
• duckie

References

• “duck”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Birks, Steve (2005 January 26) “The history of the Potteries dialect”, in BBC‎^[3], retrieved 2014-11-19

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʊk

Verb

duck

1. singular imperative of ducken

Middle English

Noun

duck

1. Alternative form of duk (“duke”)