duck – English noun declension

English noun forms of duck

Noun: duck
Singularduck
Pluralducks; duck

Sample Sentences

  • Matsumoto Castle exhibits the architecture of both war and peace, from its steep wooden stairs, hidden inner levels and archer’s perches to the moon-viewing room added in 1630, which also offers a vantage point for viewing the brocaded carps and ducks residing in the castle moat. [2023 May 18, David McElhenney, “13 of Japan’s best castles”, in CNN:]
  • The payment processor’s layoffs and the curious incident of the duck were first reported by Business Insider. [2025 January 23, John Towfighi, “Stripe accidentally sends image of cartoon duck to laid-off employees”, in CNN:]
  • A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
  • The Big Duck has influenced the world of architecture; any building that is shaped like its product is called a ‘duck’. [2007 February 21, Cynthia Blair, “It Happened on Long Island: 1988—Suffolk County Adopts the Big Duck”, in Newsday:]
  • Love them or hate them, ducks have a light-hearted presence in our architectural history. [2017 July 8, Syed, Sabrina, ArchDaily:]
  • Today, “ducks” continue to crop up across America and beyond, but they are no longer relegated to strips and roadsides alone; in many cases, they’ve entered the tight-knit landscape of cities ... [2019 June 10, Gotthardt, Alexxa, “The Quirky, Endearing Tradition of “Duck” Architecture”, in artsy.net:]
  • In Las Vegas, Ducks thrive because resorts often transform themselves into oversized symbols of the fantasy they promise. [2025 September 30, Duck Duck Shed:]
  • The more passive males are subjected to physical violence. I was subjected to being what they call a punk or a duck, which is someone else's power trip, that's all. [1986 April 19, Michael Rathbone, “Tell Someone”, in Gay Community News, page 4:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *dūkaną
3. Proto-West Germanic *dūkan
4. Old English *dūcan
5. Middle English ducken
6. English duck
7. From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”).
8. Cognates
9. Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”). See: Old English Nouns '*dūcan', Danish Nouns 'dukke'.

Verbs referencing "duck"

German Nouns Tuch, Dutch Nouns doks, German Nouns Dagobert Duck.