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)

originEtymology tree English duck English -s English ducks From duck (“darling”) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

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