duckling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dokeling, dukling, dookelynge (“duckling”), equivalent to duck + -ling.
Base: duck
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: ducklings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young duck.
pos: noun
gloss: A young duck.
pos: noun
examples: Good night, darling; take that kiss to your respected mother, and tell her with my compliments that we can’t afford to make ducks and drakes of the romance of our little pet’s life: she will hatch those birds for herself in due time, and remain cluck-clucking, wisely, but sadly, like a perplexed old hen, when her ducklings and drakelings have unexpectedly taken the water.
Referring to Table 1 it will be seen that if a breeding duck produces 40 marketable progeny each year (and in practice this should be achieved) half of which are ducklings and the other half drakelings, and these birds realise 2s. per lb. live weight, then that breeding duck would return approximately £15 10s. over feeding costs for the 12 months.
Muscovy ducks with ducklings. This is the most popular breed for table purposes. They make weights of up to 5 lb. for ducklings at 13 to 14 weeks, and up to 9 lb. for drakelings at 16 weeks when correctly handled.
Related words: duck
gosling
swanling
Derived words: lucky duckling
ugly duckling
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: rikë
lang: Basque
word: ahatekume
lang: Belarusian
word: качаня́
roman: kačanjá
lang: Belarusian
word: качанё
roman: kačanjó
lang: Bulgarian
word: па́те
roman: páte
lang: Bulgarian
word: па́тенце
roman: pátence
lang: Bulgarian
word: пате́нце
roman: paténce
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: качатко
roman: kačatko
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: каче
roman: kače
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: качочка
roman: kačočka
lang: Catalan
word: aneguet
lang: Catalan
word: anedó
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 小鴨子 /小鸭子
roman: siu² aap³ zi²
lang: Chinese
word: 鴨咪仔 /鸭咪仔
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese
word: 鴨仔囝 /鸭仔囝
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 小鴨子 /小鸭子
roman: xiǎoyāzi
lang: Cornish
word: heyjik
lang: Montagnais
word: shishipiss
lang: Czech
word: káče
lang: Czech
word: káčátko
lang: Danish
word: ælling
lang: Dutch
word: eendenkuiken
lang: Dutch
word: eendenjong
lang: Dutch
word: eendje
lang: Dutch
word: piel
lang: Esperanto
word: anasido
lang: Faroese
word: dunnuungi
lang: Finnish
word: ankanpoikanen
lang: Finnish
word: sorsanpoikanen
lang: French
word: canardeau
lang: French
word: caneton
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word: parrulo
lang: Galician
word: parruliño
lang: German
word: Entenjunges
lang: German
word: Entenküken
lang: German
word: Entchen
lang: German
word: Entlein
lang: German
word: Jungente
lang: German
word: junge Ente
lang: Greek
word: παπί
roman: papí
lang: Greek
word: παπάκι
roman: papáki
lang: Hebrew
word: ברווזון \ בַּרְוָזוֹן
roman: barvazón
lang: Hungarian
word: kiskacsa
lang: Icelandic
word: andarungi
lang: Ido
word: anadyuno
lang: Indonesian
word: itik
lang: Irish
word: lachín
lang: Irish
word: éan lachan
lang: Italian
word: anatroccolo
lang: Italian
word: anatrella
lang: Korean
word: 오리 새끼
roman: ori saekki
lang: Latin
word: anaticula
lang: Latvian
word: pīlēns
lang: Lithuanian
word: ančiukas
lang: Macedonian
word: пајче
roman: pajče
lang: Macedonian
word: патче
roman: patče
lang: Macedonian
word: бибе
roman: bibe
lang: Malay
word: anak itik
lang: Māori
word: pī rakiraki
lang: Classical Nahuatl
word: canauhconētl
lang: Classical Nahuatl
word: canauhconētōntli
lang: Norman
word: cannot
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: andunge
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: andunge
lang: Occitan
word: guiton
lang: Occitan
word: anedon
lang: Occitan
word: riton
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: каче
roman: kače
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: качатко
roman: kačatko
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Piela
lang: Polish
word: kaczę
lang: Polish
word: kaczątko
lang: Portuguese
word: patinho
lang: Romanian
word: rățușcă
lang: Romanian
word: rățișoară
lang: Romanian
word: rățucă
lang: Romanian
word: boboc
lang: Russian
word: утёнок
roman: utjónok
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: па̏че
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pȁče
lang: Slovak
word: kačiatko
lang: Slovak
word: káča
lang: Slovene
word: račka
lang: Spanish
word: patito
lang: Sundanese
word: titit
lang: Swedish
word: älling
lang: Swedish
word: andunge
lang: Swedish
word: ankunge
lang: Turkish
word: badi
lang: Ukrainian
word: каченя́
roman: kačenjá
lang: Ukrainian
word: каченя́тко
roman: kačenjátko
lang: Ukrainian
word: кача́
roman: kačá
lang: Vietnamese
word: vịt con
lang: Volapük
word: dökül