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Duckling   /dˈəklɪŋ/   Listen
Duckling

noun
1.
Flesh of a young domestic duck.
2.
Young duck.



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ugly duckling


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"Duckling" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sunday best; but he began to be conscious that now he was passing to a new sphere, where the girls are supreme and superior, and he began to feel for the first time that he was an awkward boy. The girl takes to society as naturally as a duckling does to the placid pond, but with a semblance of shy timidity; the boy plunges in with a great splash, and hides his shy awkwardness in noise ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... so?" and Miss Templeton looked relieved; for the moment her serenity had seemed slightly clouded with what her sister always called her "hen and duckling look." ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... swan of the flocks of Phoebus ever began life as a more ungainly duckling than Ibsen did. The ingenuity of biographers has done its best to brighten up the dreary record of his childhood with anecdotes, yet the sum of them all is but a dismal story. The only talent which was supposed to lurk ...
— Henrik Ibsen • Edmund Gosse


Words linked to "Duckling" :   ugly duckling, duck


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