The Meaning of duck

• (n.) A pet; a darling.
• (n.) A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.
• (n.) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
• (v. t.) To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
• (v. t.) To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.
• (v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.
• (v. i.) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.
• (v. i.) To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
• (v. t.) Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae.
• (v. t.) A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.

Synonyms

duck's egg , dip , douse , hedge , fudge , evade , put off , circumvent , parry , elude , skirt , dodge , sidestep

Homophones

duc , duk

Rhymes

amok , amuck , bruck , buc , buck , canuck , chuck , chuck-a-luck , cluck , cruck , druck , duc , duk , dumbstruck , fluck , fuck , gluck , guck , huck , hucke , kluck , kruck , kruk , kuc , kuck , kuk , luck , lucke , luk , megabuck , moonstruck , muck , pluck , potluck , puck , roebuck , ruck , schmuck , schuch , schuck , sculk , shuck , smuck , snuck , starstruck , struck , stuck , stucke , suck , suk , thunderstruck , truck , tuck , tuque , unstuck , wnuk , woodchuck , wruck , yuck , yuk , zuck , zuk