{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "dək" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/duck.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/duck.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/duck.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English *dukken, from Old English *ducan, *duccan (“to duck”); a secondary verb akin to Middle English 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”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb- (“deep, hollow”) (whence Proto-Germanic *dūbaną (“to dive”)).\n\n\nCognates\n\nRelated 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”).", "From Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, dūce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dive, bend down”). See verb above.\n\n\nCognates\n\nCognate with Scots duik, duke, dook (“duck”), Danish dukand, dykand (“sea-duck”), Swedish dykfågel (“a diver, diving bird, plungeon”), Middle Dutch duycker (“diver”), Low German düker (“diver”).", "From Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doeck, doec (“linen cloth”), from Old Dutch *dōc, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwōg-, *dwōk-. Cognate with German Tuch (“cloth”), Swedish duk (“cloth, canvas”), Icelandic dúkur (“cloth, fabric”). Doublet of doek.", "Potteries dialect, Black Country dialect and dialects of the former territory of Mercia (central England). Compare Danish dukke (“doll”), Swedish docka (“baby; doll”), dialectal English doxy (“sweetheart”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.\nDuck! There's a branch falling off the tree!" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To bow." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To evade doing something." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.\nI'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute, can you hold my bag?" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace." } ] }, { "name": "Alternative_forms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "ducke (obsolete)" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet." }, { "mean": "Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling." }, { "mean": "(uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food." }, { "mean": "(cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit \"0\" is round like an egg.)" }, { "mean": "(slang) A playing card with the rank of two." }, { "mean": "A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.\nA luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly." }, { "mean": "A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games." }, { "mean": "(US) A cairn used to mark a trail." }, { "mean": "One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve." }, { "mean": "(finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)" }, { "mean": "(medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men." }, { "mean": "(UK, slang, obsolete) A faggot; a meatball made from offal." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "anatine\ndrake\ngoose\nquack\nswan\nwaterfowl" } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN\n(faggot, meatball): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary" } ] }, { "name": "Alternative_forms_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "dook, doock (Scotland)" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth." }, { "mean": "(in the plural) Trousers made of such material." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A term of endearment; pet; darling." }, { "mean": "(Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).\nAy up duck, ow'a'tha?" } ] }, { "name": "References_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "duck at OneLook Dictionary Search\nBirks, Steve(2005-01-26),“The history of the Potteries dialect”, inBBC, retrieved 2014-11-19" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "대체_양식", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "레퍼런스", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "대체_forms_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참조_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(to lower the head): duck down", "(to lower into the water): dip, dunk", "(to lower in order to prevent it from being struck by something): dip" ], "kor": [ "", "", "" ] } } }