ducky
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈdʌki/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ducky (comparative duckier, superlative duckiest)
- Resembling or characteristic of a duck.
- 2016, Helaine Becker, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie:
- A barrage of very ducky kazoo blats filled the air.
Etymology 2[edit]
From duck (“aquatic bird”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
ducky (plural duckies)
- (childish) A duck (aquatic bird), especially a toy rubber duck.
- 1990, Donna LeBlanc, You can't quit until you know what's eating you:
- Do little things for your Inner Child, like taking bubble baths. Invite a rubber ducky to play with you...
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
From duck (term of endearment) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
ducky (plural duckies)
Etymology 4[edit]
From duck (term of endearment) + -y.
Adjective[edit]
ducky (comparative more ducky, superlative most ducky)
- (slang) Darling, charming, cute.
- (slang, dated) Great; going well; proceeding in an eminently agreeable fashion.
- Synonyms: fine, just ducky, peachy, swell
- Farnesworth smiled contentedly as he read the stock ticker; all was ducky on Wall Street.
- 1930, Mickey Mouse newspaper comic
- Isn't this the duckiest little leather skirt you ever saw?
- 1942, James Thurber, The Catbird Seat:
- Fortunately, she had bragged to everybody about her ducky first-floor apartment in the perfectly darling three-story red-brick.
See also[edit]
- shucky ducky (etymologically unrelated)
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