different between ducking vs docking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?k??/
• Rhymes: -?k??

Etymology 1

Verb

ducking

1. present participle of duck

Noun

ducking (countable and uncountable, plural duckings)

1. (uncountable) The action of the verb to duck.
2. (countable) An instance of ducking (a person in water, etc).

   They gave him a ducking in the river as a punishment.

Derived terms

• ducking stool

Etymology 2

Generated by autocorrect on Apple devices; sometimes intentionally used for humorous effect.

Adjective

ducking (not comparable)

1. (slang, euphemistic) fucking (as intensifier)
   • 2015, "El Castor", Re: China sending fighter jets to Syria to assist Russia (on newsgroup soc.retirement)

     You are the ducking idiot here.

References

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k??

Verb

docking

1. present participle of dock

Noun

docking (plural dockings)

1. The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
2. The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
3. The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
4. (slang) The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
5. (molecular biology) A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.

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