English Explanatory Dictionary

ducking

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. present participle and gerund of duck
noun
  1. An instance of ducking down, e.g. to hide.
  2. An instance of ducking (a person in water, etc).
adj
  1. Euphemistic form of fucking.
noun
  1. The act of surreptitiously leaving a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).

Pronunciation

/ˈdʌkɪŋ/ En-au-ducking.ogg

Word forms

ducking duckings

Etymology

By surface analysis, duck + -ing.

Related words

rubber ducking

Derived words

ducking coat ducking stool rubber ducking rubber-ducking
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on D Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary