/dʌk/
Translation
A water bird with a flat beak and webbed feet that likes to swim.
Word origin
From Old English duce, meaning a diver, from the way the bird dives in water.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- duce
Grammar
Examples
pond.
"Duck" is one water bird.
swimming .
"Ducks" is the plural, meaning more than one duck.
.
Here "duck" is the bird being fed.
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