Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A young duck.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A young duck.
Wiktionary
- n. A young duck.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A young or little duck.
WordNet 3.0
- n. young duck
- n. flesh of a young domestic duck
Examples
“Their networks and the cousins of syndication and cable run show after show where some ugly duckling is turned into a swan courtesy of the plastic surgeon and personal trainer.”
“The duckling is always on the menu, along with potato-crusted Lake Superior whitefish, the fish to eat in these parts.”
“Nick, that comment about your hair resembling that of a duckling was a compliment to your haircut -- it's adorable.”
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“If the positions of farmer and kills are interchanged, the sentence reads kills the farmer the duckling, which is most naturally interpreted as an unusual but not unintelligible mode of asking the question, does the farmer kill the duckling?”
“Long Island duckling aka Pekin duck, a large white breed raised for meat in this country, can be found frozen in many supermarkets.”
“a duckling or a gosling for dinner; that there were two quite ready -- the brown and yellow duckling, that is the last to leave the water at night, and the white gosling that never knows his own 'ouse.”
“Found first while still inside his egg by a pair of chickens, the "duckling" (who, as every reader of the original tale knows, ain't no duck) is soon rejected by the community for his ungainly appearance.”
“In Greek, it is most often referred to as papaki (παπάκι), meaning "duckling," due to the similarity it bears with comic character designs for ducks.”
“In one sitting, he was said to have put away a hundred oysters, four bottles of white wine, a dozen salt-meadow lamb cutlets, duckling with turnips, a brace of roast partridge, a Normandy sole, dessert and Comice pears.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘duckling’.
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You animal!
Names of animals that are also used to describe kinds of people. Nouns only, preferably single word.
For a related list, see sionnach's beastly verbs.rabbit, shark, hog, pussycat, bear, bull, skunk, hawk, wildcat, buck, slug, heifer and 112 more...
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Duck!
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, or quacks like a duck, then you should probably list it here.
duck, Duck, turducken, duckling, duck tape, Mallard, rubber duckie, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, lame duck, ducky, ducks and 80 more...
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Imagical: Words You Should Be Falling Over Your...
Come on, we need a counterbalance...
This has the potential to be the fluffiest list on Wordie.nebula, piglet squid, chinchilla, steering winds, the two towels, haboob, duckling, paradise, rainbow, steampunk, peacock, cthulhu and 11 more...
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(LING)uistics
Words ending in 'ling'
youngling, fledgling, quisling, ridgeling, stripling, kitling, scatterling, earthling, foundling, hatchling, sapling, seedling and 7 more...

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