duckflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From duck + flesh.
Senses: examples: text: A few spoon-bills were also to be seen, and lovers of duckflesh never turn up their noses at a spoon-bill.
ref: 1880 March 19, “About Game. And the Kind We Have Just Now.”, in Public Ledger, volume XXX, number 17, Memphis, Tenn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [4], column 5:
text: What would the reader think to seeing a farmer traveling to market with as many ducks as could be crowded into more than the space of the park between the City Hall and the postoffice in New York City—a mass of perhaps two city blocks of duckflesh and feathers? That was what was driven past us on the Grand Canal one day.
ref: 1895 July 30, Julian Ralph in Harper’s Magazine, “The Duck Farms of China”, in The Times-Democrat, volume XXXII, number 13,929, New Orleans, La., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 7:
text: We had with us some dried duckflesh and some fruit, and resting at mid-day under the shade of a willow of immense age, we made as good a repast as the heat and the moisture permitted—I speak of myself and Bruce—heat and cramped limbs, apparently, troubling our companion as little as hunger, toil or storm.
ref: 1906, Edward Hardingham, “‘Has el Caballero no Message for La Reina?’”, in Hugh Leventhorpe, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book I (America), page 145:
text: As for what “Hardshell” terms “the bad stuff” exported by me, I might mention that out of 30 ducks sent to the depot on trial only two were rejected on account of light weight. One of these was killed three days afterwards, and when dressed for the oven turned the scale at 3 ℔. 10 oz. For quality nothing better in the way of duckflesh could have been described by the most fastidious epicure.
ref: 1908 September 26, E. J. Ferris, “Government Produce Export Department”, in The Observer, volume LXV, part II, number 3,495, Adelaide, S.A., →OCLC, page 16, column 5:
text: The general appraisers think that imported Chinese duckflesh when dried, salted and packed (with or without peanut oil) in tin cans is a clear case of “prepared or preserved meat,” and dutiable as such.
ref: 1909 April 20, “Note and Comment”, in The Hartford Courant, volume LXXIII, Hartford, Conn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 5:
text: Among those who make regular trips to the river and have had at least a taste of duckflesh this season are: Herb Nelson, […]
ref: 1933 October 19, “Duck Hunters Not Elated About Results Up to Date”, in J. Allan Minger, editor, The Superior Express, volume XXXIV, number 42, Superior, Neb.: W. W. Driggs, →ISSN, →OCLC, front page, column 4:
text: Vulp emitted a low growl of annoyance when he realised that for this season at least the island would yield no savoury meal of duckflesh.
ref: 1935 June 27, F. G. Turnbull, “Road to the Isle: Short Story”, in Daily Herald, number 6042, London, →OCLC, page 16, columns 2–3:
text: Double duck an all-day, two-stage job, four ducks for four people. First brace of birds roasted plain, slightly underdone, forks inside them to spread the heat. Then, roasted duckflesh striped from carcasses, chopped fine, mixed with onion, sage, fennel, cognac, touch of special sausage meat purchased by Parodi from a Tuscan aunt in Yonkers.
ref: 1973, Herbert Burkholz, chapter 6, in The Spanish Soldier, New York, N.Y.: Charterhouse, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 112:
text: It happens that a water turtle ate the dead drake. Now will the turtle die of poisoned duckflesh? Will its carcass be consumed by a noble eagle, who will then lay thin-shelled eggs and be investigated by Nader and the Sierra Club? Is duckflesh the same as gooseflesh?
ref: 1975 June 12, rsk, “The Scribbles”, in Robert Kendall, editor, Reporter, 86th year, number 139, Martinsville, Ind.: Reporter-Times, Inc., →OCLC, page 1, column 1:
text: Donald’s bare legs showed signs of gooseflesh — or should that be duckflesh?
ref: 1988 September 6, “Donald Duck”, in Daily Register, volume 140, number 206, Portage, Wis., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:
text: Duckflesh is a dark meat, and ducks are generally fatter than chicken – though mine weren’t, after all the exercise they got following me through the tobacco field.
ref: 1989 February 1, Katrina Larsen, “Chinese New Year means roast duck”, in Park City Daily News, year 135, number 28, Bowling Green, Ky.: News Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 10-A, column 4:
synonyms: duck
duckmeat
glosses: The flesh of a duck.