duckling

It should be no surprise when you turn the page, see a duckling looking curiously into your eyes and feel an emotional connection.

Eliza was the ugly duckling of her high school, voted “Most Butt” of her senior class.

It's fashionable to lament the status of the novella: unjustly neglected, the ugly duckling of the literary world, etc.

In his six years in Paris, Lebovitz transforms himself from a clueless American duckling into a knowing Parisian swan.

And now it had turned out a real little duckling, that black little fellow Mother Wyandotte was scolding so.

Finally only one duckling remained in the middle of the river, probably at once the strongest and most foolish of the brood.

Lulu was a duckling who could throw a stone almost as well as could Jimmie, but Alice was not so fond of doing this.

They were an odd contrast—the mother and son—suggesting the homely but immortal comparison of the hen with the ugly duckling.

In other words, the elements farmer, kill, and duckling define concepts of a concrete order.