Meaning

noun small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs

noun (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman

noun flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)

originFrom 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. Cognates Cognate with Scots duik, duke, dook (“duck”), Danish dukand, dykand (“sea-duck”), Swedish dykfågel (“a…

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