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quail
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kwe?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English quaylen, from Middle Dutch queilen, qu?len, from Old Dutch *quelan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelan? (“to suffer”). Doublet of queal.
Alternative forms
- quele (obsolete)
- queal (obsolete)
Verb
quail (third-person singular simple present quails, present participle quailing, simple past and past participle quailed)
- (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither [from 15th c.]
- (transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone) [from 16th c.]
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia: or, Buried Alive: A Novel, London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN; republished in The Avignon Quintet, London: Faber, published 1992, ?ISBN, page 358:
- To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia: or, Buried Alive: A Novel, London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN; republished in The Avignon Quintet, London: Faber, published 1992, ?ISBN, page 358:
- (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way. [from 16th c.]
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English quayle, quaile, quaille, from Anglo-Norman quaille, from Late Latin quaccola (“quail”).
Noun
quail (plural quails or quail)
- Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
- 1954, Wildlife Review (issues 75-83, page 44)
- Quail require little water, so there is no point to putting in a guzzler if there is any permanent water within travel range.
- 1954, Wildlife Review (issues 75-83, page 44)
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- (obsolete) A prostitute, so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- partridge
Etymology 3
From Middle English quaylen, qwaylen, from Old French coaillier, from Latin co?gul?re. Doublet of coagulate.
Verb
quail (third-person singular simple present quails, present participle quailing, simple past and past participle quailed)
- (obsolete) To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.
Anagrams
- quali
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duck
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?k, IPA(key): /d?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English *dukken, from Old English *ducan, *duccan (“to duck”). 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”); a secondary verb akin to Middle English duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *d?can (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewb- (“deep, hollow”) (whence Proto-Germanic *d?ban? (“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”).
Verb
duck (third-person singular simple present ducks, present participle ducking, simple past and past participle ducked)
- (intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (transitive) To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- c. 1729, Jonathan Swift, To Dr. Delany on the Libels Written Against Him
- 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
- As some raw youth in country bred,
- c. 1729, Jonathan Swift, To Dr. Delany on the Libels Written Against Him
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
- Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub.
- 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
- (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day.
- (intransitive) To bow.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
- The learned pate / Ducks to the golden fool.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
- (transitive) To evade doing something.
- (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.
Synonyms
- (to lower the head): duck down
- (to lower into the water): dip, dunk
- (to lower in order to prevent it from being struck by something): dip
Coordinate terms
- (to lower the head or body to prevent it from being struck): hit the deck
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, d?ce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *d?can (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to dive, bend down”). See verb above. Cognate with Scots duik, duke, dook (“duck”), Danish dukand, dykand (“sea-duck”), Swedish dykfågel (“a diver, diving bird, plungeon”), Middle Dutch duycker (“diver”), Low German düker (“diver”).
Alternative forms
- ducke (obsolete)
Noun
duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks)
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.
- A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
- 2007, Cynthia Blair, "It Happened on Long Island: 1988—Suffolk County Adopts the Big Duck," Newsday, 21 Feb.:
- The Big Duck has influenced the world of architecture; any building that is shaped like its product is called a ‘duck’.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- (finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
- (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.
Hyponyms
- (bird): Anas platyrhynchos (domesticus), Mallard-derived domestic breeds, including Pekin, Rouen, Campbell, Call, Runner; Cairina moschata, Muscovy duck
Derived terms
Translations
See also
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN
Etymology 3
From Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doeck, doec (“linen cloth”), from Old Dutch *d?c, from Proto-West Germanic *d?k, from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dw?g-, *dw?k-. Cognate with German Tuch (“cloth”), Swedish duk (“cloth, canvas”), Icelandic dúkur (“cloth, fabric”). Doublet of doek.
Alternative forms
- dook, doock (Scotland)
Noun
duck (plural ducks)
- A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
- 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from Selected Short Stories:
- He was dressed in a Jaeger vest—a pair of blue duck trousers, fastened round the waist with a plaited leather belt.
- 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from Selected Short Stories:
- (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 56:
- 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 […].
- 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 74:
- A native servant emerged, anonymous in his white ducks and red fez, to say My Player was wanted on the telephone.
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 56:
Derived terms
- duck tape
Translations
Etymology 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”).
Noun
duck (plural ducks)
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck (William Shakespeare - The Life of King Henry the Fifth, Act 2, Scene 3).
- (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:friend
Derived terms
- ay up me duck
- duckie
References
- duck at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Birks, Steve (2005-01-26) , “The history of the Potteries dialect”, in BBC?[2], retrieved 2014-11-19
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?k
Verb
duck
- singular imperative of ducken
duck From the web:
- what ducks eat
- what ducks don't fly
- what ducks can fly
- what ducks nest in trees
- what duck lays the most eggs
- what ducks lay blue eggs
- what ducks are yellow as babies
- what ducklings eat
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