duckling
/'dʌkliɳ/
Definition
- Noun:
- A young duck: A duckling is a baby or juvenile duck.
- The meat of a young domestic duck: Duckling also refers to the flesh of a young duck used as food.
Examples
Noun (young duck):
- The mother duck led her line of ducklings across the pond.
- We watched the fluffy yellow ducklings learn to swim.
Noun (meat):
- For dinner, we roasted a duckling with orange sauce.
- Duckling is often considered more tender than mature duck.
Advanced Usage
- "Ugly duckling": This is a common idiom referring to someone or something that appears unattractive or unpromising at first but develops into something beautiful or successful. It originates from the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.
- She felt like the ugly duckling in her family of talented musicians, but later became a famous painter.
Variants and Related Words
- Duck (noun): The adult bird.
- Duckling is typically used as is; the "-ling" suffix often denotes something small or young (e.g., gosling, fledgling).
Synonyms
- Young duck: Gosling (specifically a young goose, not a duck).
- Meat: There is no direct single-word synonym; "young duck meat" is a descriptive equivalent.
Idioms Related
- Ugly duckling: As described in Advanced Usage.
Noun
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young duck
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flesh of a young domestic duck
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