DUCK
INTERJECTIONS
1900 ► DIDDLE! a call for young ducks → Eng. & Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► DILL! a call word for ducks → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► DILLY! a call word for ducks → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► QUACK, QUACK, QUACK, COME TO MEAT! a call to ducks → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1928 ► QUEETICHIE a call word for ducks → Sc.
1928 ► QUEETLE a call word for ducks → Sc.
1928 ► QUYTIE a call word for ducks → Sc.
NOUNS
1486 ► BADELYNG → BADLING a brood or small group of ducks → obs.
1486 ► SUIT a flight of mallards → obs.
1620 ► QUACKING-CHEAT a duck → cant
1819 ► DIDDLES ducklings → Eng. dial.
1819 ► DIDDLINGS ducklings → Eng. dial.
1830 ► QUACKIE a duck → Sc.
1832 ► QUACKER a duck → colloq.
1858 ► TEAM a brood of young ducks → Eng. dial.
1865 ► QUACK a duck
1865 ► QUACK-QUACK a duck
1866 ► QUEEPLE the peeping cry of young ducks → Sc.
1873 ► DIG → DIGG a duck → Eng. dial.
1882 ► PADDLER a wild duck
1887 ► GUCK a duck → Sc.
1893 ► FLAPPER a fledgling wild duck → sl. (Bk.)
1895 ► DILL → DILL-DUCK a young duck → Eng. dial.
1900 ► DIG-BIRD a young duck → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► DIGGER a duck → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► DIGGEY a duckling → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1903 ► RED-SHANK a duck or drake → sl. (Bk.)
1915 ► SUBMARINE a duck World War I Amer. sl.
1923 ► ICEBREAKER the mallard → Amer. dial.
1945 ► QUANKER a duck-calling device → Can. sl.
1964 ► DUCK FACTORY an area of marsh where ducks nest → Can. sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
2006 ► DUCK-SQUEEZER a person with strong concerns about rescuing oil-covered ducks → US sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
1470 ► UNBRACE to carve a duck or mallard → obs.
1564 ► QUACKLE to quack, as a duck
1880 ► QUEEPLE to quack in a squeaking, high-pitched tone, as ducklings do → Sc.
1898 ► BEAVE to dive; said of ducks → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► WADDLE to trample grass, etc.; said of ducks → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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