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Antonyms for ducking

Grammar : Verb
Spell : duhk
Phonetic Transcription : dÊŒk

Definition of ducking

Origin :
  • waterfowl, Old English duce (found only in genitive ducan) "a duck," literally "a ducker," presumed to be from Old English *ducan "to duck, dive" (see duck (v.)). Replaced Old English ened as the name for the bird, this being from PIE *aneti-, the root of the "duck" noun in most Indo-European languages.
  • In the domestic state the females greatly exceed in number, hence duck serves at once as the name of the female and of the race, drake being a specific term of sex. [OED]
  • As a term of endearment, attested from 1580s. duck-walk is 1930s; duck soup "anything easily done" is by 1899. Duck's ass haircut is from 1951. Ducks-and-drakes, skipping flat stones on water, is from 1580s; the figurative sense of "throwing something away recklessly" is c.1600.
  • verb drop down; avoid
Example sentences :
  • I can't see the stage for you two ducking your heads together!
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • Then shall he not go without a ducking and eke a drubbing himself!
  • Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
  • Could it have been that ducking his head in the river at Wythburn had caused it to burn like a furnace?
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
  • Ducking, he went down under the cloud, just what the Jerry wanted.
  • Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery
  • Stan laid over and made a sweep, ducking in and out of the flak.
  • Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery
  • Daikoku has to hold on tightly or he will slip down and get a ducking.
  • Extract from : « Japanese Fairy World » by William Elliot Griffis
  • In some instances the ducking was carried to such an extent as to cause death.
  • Extract from : « Bygone Punishments » by William Andrews
  • Dot was in a clean dry dress and none the worse for her ducking.
  • Extract from : « Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm » by Mabel C. Hawley
  • It meant a ducking and perhaps worse, for even where he stood the current was strong.
  • Extract from : « Followers of the Trail » by Zoe Meyer
  • Luckily for the boy, he was at the side of the sledge and escaped a ducking.
  • Extract from : « A Negro Explorer at the North Pole » by Matthew A. Henson

Synonyms for ducking

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