different between ducks vs hummingbird

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks

Etymology 1

Verb

ducks

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of duck

Etymology 2

Noun

ducks

1. plural of duck

Noun

ducks

1. (poker slang) A pair of twos.
2. (Britain, chiefly Northern England, used vocatively) Dear (used as a pet name).

   Hello ducks, how are you today?

3. (nautical) The light trousers worn by sailors in hot climates.
   • 1856, Charles Nordhoff, Nine Years a Sailor

     His spotless white ducks set tight about the hips, and hang loosely at the bottom, just allowing the tips of a pair of patent-leather pumps to peep out from beneath their ample breadth.

Synonyms

• (pet name): dear, duck, ducky, love

Translations

Anagrams

• suck'd

English

Alternative forms

• humming bird, humming-bird

Etymology

From humming (noun) +? bird, in reference to the humming sound made by the rapidly moving wings.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?m???b?d/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?m???b??d/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /?h?m?n?b??d/

Noun

hummingbird (plural hummingbirds)

1. Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
   • 1857 Thoreau, Henry David, journal entry, May 29, 1857. From Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p238. (Originally published as the anthology Thoreau's bird-lore, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)

     Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]

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See also

• snowcap