duck

duck is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A pet; a darling. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A pet; a darling.
2. noun. A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, and sometimes for men's clothing.
3. noun. The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
4. transitive verb. To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
5. transitive verb. To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.
6. transitive verb. To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.
7. intransitive verb. To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to dive; to plunge the head in water or other liquid; to dip.
8. intransitive verb. To drop the head or person suddenly; to bow.
9. transitive verb. Any bird of the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae.
10. transitive verb. A sudden inclination of the bead or dropping of the person, resembling the motion of a duck in water.
11. noun. small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
12. noun. a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
13. noun. flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
14. noun. (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
15. verb. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

    "He dodged the issue"

    "she skirted the problem"

    Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep, skirt

16. verb. to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away

    "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"

17. verb. submerge or plunge suddenly
18. verb. dip into a liquid

    "He dipped into the pool"

    Synonyms: dip, douse

Synonyms

circumvent, dodge, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, sidestep, skirt, dip, douse

Common word forms

ducks, ducked, ducker, ducking

Words from these letters

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