duck

duck

1. informal An odd, peculiar, or eccentric person. Usually used after those sorts of modifiers. His new girlfriend is nice enough, but she's a bit of an odd duck, don't you think? Most of my family thinks I'm something of a strange duck. I just like doing things my own unique way, I guess.
2. informal A term of endearment, especially for a loved one. Primarily heard in UK. A: "Hello, my little duck. How are you?" B: "Hi, Grandad. I'm fine."
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

duck

verb
See deduck

duck

1. n. a male urinal bedpan. (Hospitals.) Somebody in room 212 needs a duck.
2. tv. to avoid someone or something. Clare is ducking her responsibility.
3. Go to deduck.
4. n. a ticket. (Probably akin to ducats.) Did you buy the ducks early, or do we have to stand in line?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) easy as duck soup
  • (as) happy as a duck in Arizona
  • a dead duck
  • a lame duck
  • a sitting duck
  • a sitting duck/target
  • all duck or no dinner
  • all one's ducks in a row, get/have
  • as a duck takes to water
  • ay up me duck
  • be (like) water off a duck's back
  • be a dead duck
  • be duck soup
  • be water off a duck's back
  • break (one's) duck
  • break your 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 out of a low-flying duck
  • dead duck
  • dead duck, a
  • deduck
  • duck
  • duck and cover
  • duck and dive
  • duck butt
  • duck down
  • duck face
  • duck out
  • duck soup
  • duck soup, like
  • duck test
  • duck-butt
  • ducking and diving
  • ducks and drakes
  • duck-squeezer
  • easy as A, B, C
  • fine weather for ducks
  • get (one's) ducks in a row
  • get ducks in a row
  • get one's ducks in a row
  • get your ducks in a row
  • get/have your ducks in a row
  • God love a duck!
  • golden duck
  • happy as a duck in Arizona
  • have (one's) ducks in a row
  • have all (of) (one's) ducks in a row
  • hunt where the ducks are
  • if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck
  • knee-high to a duck
  • lame duck
  • lame duck, a
  • like a duck to water
  • like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
  • like water off a duck's back
  • Lord love a duck!
  • Lovely weather for ducks
  • lucky duck
  • make ducks and drakes of
  • make ducks and drakes of (something)
  • milk a duck
  • milking a duck
  • mud duck
  • odd duck
  • play ducks and drakes with
  • play ducks and drakes with (one)
  • play ducks and drakes with someone
  • pour water on a duck's back
  • queer duck
  • sitting duck
  • sitting duck, a
  • strange duck
  • take to
  • take to (something) like a duck to water
  • take to it like a duck to water, to
  • take to something like a duck to water
References in periodicals archive
Joe Bubb, organiser, said: "This year we have more ducks of various shapes and sizes on display for visitors to see.".
Ooh ducky, what a fun weekend! E&S BRIEFING
Starting at the Duck Inn, trail maps, plants, cakes and refreshments will be on sale, and participants can also join the trail at other key locations selling trail maps.
Love-a-duck! Village ready to go quackers over hundreds of visitors
Reader Kate Paterson had contacted the Observer after seeing pictures of the race, fearing that the ducks would be left in the river.
There's no need to flap about our Fling ducks
Known as the Deveron Duck, he also had the job of congratulating the winners of the group's colour-in a duck competition - the top entries being named McDuck, Uniduck, Sparklequack and Deveron Duck, emblazoned with a picture of the bridge.
Special ducks help feather the nest of Christmas lights committee; CHARITY
California, with its extra-long 107-day season, and Louisiana, at the end spout of the Mississippi River Flyway funnel, are consistently the top two states for duck kills.
Duck Hunting Not Dead Yet Lack of ducks could hurt Delta towns that rely on hunters
She said that the scheme of provision of ducks was launched last year under which farmers especially residing near ponds were given a set of ducks,three female and one male, free of cost.
Duck rearing serves as bioshield against malaria,dengue
Mandarin duck Aix galericulata is a secondary cavity-breeding waterfowl that is attracted by nest boxes (Deng et al., 2011).
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It costs PS50 to provide one session so the purchase of 25 small racing ducks would cover that cost with the purchase of a giant duck paying for the equivalent of four sessions The event will be helped along by members of the Bangor on Dee Salmon Angling Association (BODSA) who will be in the Debbie Assistant and water in their waders starting off each race and collecting the ducks from the finishing line under the Bangor on Dee bridge.
Go quackers at Nightingale House Duck Race and Fun Day
Inspector Izzi Hignell, who rescued the duck from the water, said: "The duck had a horrific injury to his beak, which must have been causing a considerable amount of pain and would have restricted eating and drinking.
Duck with missing beak is rescued from river
'Of the total duck population, about 69 percent were raised in backyard farms.'
Bird flu slashed duck production in Q1-PSA
Dishes include the signature Jinling Salted Duck, Furnace Roast Duck, Jinling Sauce Duck, Duck Breast with Shrimp Paste, Vegetable Duck Fried Rice, Duck Tongue cooked with Wine, Duck Oil Clay Oven Rolls etc.
Regent Taipei X Nanjing Jinling The legend of Nanjing arrives in Taipei presenting classic duck and Huai Yang Gourmet dishes
One unit of ducks consists of three ducks and one drake.
Livestock dept distributes 200 units of ducks in three Tehsils of Rwp
Duck gumbo is much like a stew, not a precious dish but one that is made with what is on hand.
duck, duck, goose: Enjoy the spoils of the hunt
No physical feature quite defines a duck as does their bill.
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