duck

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 dŭk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A term of endearment; pet; darling.
    — […]and hold-faſt is the onely Dogge: My Ducke[…]
  2. A tightly-woven cotton or linen fabric, often used as sailcloth. countable,uncountable
    — Near-synonym: sailduck
  3. A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
  4. Any of certain aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet, distinguished from swans and geese by generally being smaller and shorter-necked. countable,uncountable
    — Matsumoto Castle exhibits the architecture of both war and peace, from its steep wooden stairs, hidden inner levels and archer’s perches to the moon-viewing room added in 1630, which also offers a vantage point for viewing the brocaded carps and ducks residing in the castle moat.
  5. Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger). Midlands
    — Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?
  6. Trousers made of such material. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — And they would go up and find old Allington, in white ducks, standing in the fringe of long grasses and cow-parsley on the other edge of the island, looking to his poultry or his rabbits.
  7. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling. countable,uncountable
  8. The flesh of a duck used as food. uncountable
  9. A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.) countable,uncountable
  10. A playing card with the rank of two. countable,slang,uncountable
  11. Ellipsis of architectural duck; a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related. abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,uncountable
    — A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
  12. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games. countable,uncountable
  13. A cairn used to mark a trail. US,countable,uncountable
  14. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve. countable,uncountable
  15. Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”). countable,dated,slang,uncountable
  16. A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal. countable,uncountable
  17. A faggot; a meatball made from offal. UK,countable,obsolete,slang,uncountable
  18. Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”). US,countable,slang,uncountable
    — The more passive males are subjected to physical violence. I was subjected to being what they call a punk or a duck, which is someone else's power trip, that's all.
动词 v.
  1. To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something. transitive
    — As some raw youth in country bred, To arms by thirst of honour led, When at a skirmish first he hears The bullets whistling round his ears, Will duck his head aside
  2. To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking). transitive
    — The couple has gotten messages from people they've ducked saying how happy it made them, and even some saying they might also start ducking.
  3. To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. transitive
    — Adams after ducking the Squire tvvice or thrice leaped out of the Tub, […]
  4. To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid. intransitive
    — […]In Tiber ducking thrice, by break of day[…]
  5. To bow. intransitive
    — The Learned pate / Duckes to the Golden Foole.
  6. To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility. figuratively,transitive
    — Victorian women choosing to duck the demands of domestic life to spend their time doing something they enjoyed is hardly a novel idea.
  7. To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly. transitive
    — The music is ducked under the voice.
  8. To enter a place for a short moment. colloquial,intransitive
    — I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute; can you hold my bag?

词形变化

ducks present,singular,third-person ducking participle,present ducked participle,past ducked past ducks plural ducks plural duck plural ducke alternative,obsolete ducks plural dook alternative doock alternative ducks plural ducks present,singular,third-person ducking participle,present ducked participle,past ducked past

词汇关系

近义词
duck down friend
衍生词
beduck duckable duck and cover duck down ducker duck off duck out unducked duck and dive duckroll all duck or no dinner American black duck antiduck architectural duck aromatic duck baby duck syndrome Beijing duck Black Duck black-headed duck blue-billed duck blue duck Bombay duck box of fluffy ducks Brahminy duck break one's duck buffel duck Burdekin duck burrow duck can a duck can a duck swim Carolina duck chance the ducks chuckey cold duck could eat the arse out of a low flying duck could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck could eat the crutch from a low flying duck crocoduck crutches for lame ducks dabbling duck Daffy Duck Daffy Duck offense dead duck decoy-duck demon duck of doom diamond duck diving duck divvy duck domestic duck Donald Duck don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks duck ague duck ant duck architecture duck-arsed duck arsed duckbill duck-bill duck-billed duckbilled duck-billed cat duck-billed dinosaur duck-billed platypus duckboard Duckburg duckburger duck butter duck call duck clam Duck Creek duck curve duck decoy duck derby duck dinner duck dive duck-drownder duck egg duck-egg blue duckery duckess duckface duck fart duck fit duckfluff duckfoot duck-footed duck-frost duck's frost duckfucker duck hawk duckhood duckish duckism duck itch duckkind duck-legged duckless ducklet ducklike duckling duckly duckman duckmeat duckmole duck mole duckness duck on a rock duck on drake duck on the rock duck orchid duck or no dinner duckpin duckpond duck pond duck potato duckpower duck press duck race ducks and drakes ducks and geese duck sauce ducks guts duckshit duckshove duck-shover ducksmeat duck snort ducks on the pond duck soup duckspeak duck-squeezer duck stamp ducktail duck test duck tour duck typing duckwalk duck walk duckweed duckwing eider duck eiderduck falcated duck ferruginous duck Field-lane duck fine weather for ducks fish duck fluffy duck freckled duck fuck a duck fuzzy duck German duck get one's ducks in a row go hunting where the ducks are golden duck gooducken Gressingham duck guck harlequin duck have one's ducks in a row hook-a-duck hunt where the ducks are hunt where the ducks were if it looks like a duck Indian whistling duck in more shit than a Werribee duck Labrador duck lame-duck lame duck Laysan duck lesser whistling duck like a duck takes to water like a duck to water like a dying duck in a thunderstorm like water off a duck's back line up one's ducks loggerhead duck long-tailed duck Lord love a duck love a duck lovely weather for ducks lucky duck mandarin duck marbled duck Mexican duck milkshake duck mottled duck mud duck Muscovy duck musk duck nice weather for ducks nigger duck odd duck one little duck out for a duck Pekin duck Peking duck pink-eared duck pintail duck platinum duck pressed duck put one's ducks in a row quack like a duck queer duck raft duck raven's duck ring-necked duck roan duck royal duck rubber duck rubber-duck rubber duck debugging ruddy duck ruptured duck savoury duck sea duck shelduck sitting duck spirit duck spotted whistling duck squawk duck St. Cuthbert's duck steamer duck step on a duck stiff-tailed duck surf duck take to something like a duck to water torrent duck tree duck tufted duck turducken two little ducks unsinkable rubber duck velvet duck wandering whistling duck water off a duck western duck sickness whew duck whistling duck white-headed duck wood duck yellow-billed duck Zhangcha duck duckie duckcloth duck tape ducktape sailduck ay up me duck ducks
相关词
anatine drake goose quack swan waterfowl deech

词源

词源 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”).
Cognates
Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”).
词源 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.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots duik, duke, dook (“duck”), Danish dukand, dykand (“sea-duck”), Swedish dykfågel (“a diver, diving bird, plungeon”), Dutch duiker (“diving bird, loon”, literally “diver, dipper, plunger”), German Low German Düker (“diving bird, loon”, literally “diver”), German Taucher (“diving bird, loon, grebe”, literally “diver, plunger”).
For the meaning development compare Russian ныро́к (nyrók, “pochard”) (< ныря́ть (nyrjátʹ, “to dive”)).
词源 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.
词源 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”).
词源 5
Denominal verb of duck (noun) and ellipsis of rubber duck
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