Post #108 #1 ) » Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:00 pm
Post by the worst Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:00 pm
etymonline.org wrote:
waterfowl, natatorial bird of the family
Anatidae
, 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 (see
).
duck-walk
, a squatting waddle done by a person, in imitation of a duck, is by 1915;
duck soup
, slang for "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.
Official Votecount 1.2 DrippingGoofball (2): Hayker, Momrangal [E-9]
[E-9]
[E-9]
(expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00) .You can find a combined mod iso here
I used this as my base for my next vote count and accidentally edited into this post, it should be back to as ducky left it -- Mizzymod
Last edited by Mizzytastic on Tue Jan 05, 2021 10:58 am, edited 4 times in total.
