ducky
1 Americanadjective
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fine; excellent; wonderful.
Chocolate cake for dinner because it's my birthday? What a ducky idea!
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darling; charming; cute.
She was entranced by the ducky little puppy.
noun
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duckies
plural
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of ducky1
First recorded in 1810–20; duck 1 + -y 1
Origin of ducky2
Example Sentences
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From the bathroom, I pulled out a ceramic planter and a mini rubber ducky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The event brought together dozens of families from across the country for an awareness walk, an auction and a rubber ducky race in a nearby creek.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2025
The laptop is amazing, and I love the rubber ducky.
From The Verge ● Jul. 25, 2022
The rubber ducky was removed from the harbor sometime Saturday, likely because of concerns about Tropical Storm Henri, Belfast Harbor Master Katherine Given was quoted as saying in the Bangor Daily News.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
A few others were making ducky and doggie shadow puppets against the wall.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
A Stormtrooper action figure, a racing Sonic the Hedgehog, Legos and rubber duckies.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
The elder Zia combined blue and pink duckies with a lamp shade, or a carousel with a music box, both items sporting cups for holding blooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2023
It offered not only sober Beethoven busts, recordings and scholarly books and scores — but also Beethoven chocolates, Beethoven wines and, yes, Beethoven rubber duckies.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2020
I bumped into a cardboard cutout of the billionaire businessman at Gorat’s steakhouse and counted several rubber duckies wearing his signature spectacles at Hollywood Candy.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2017
I sang through All the little duckies in my head.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
He had the duckiest, sweetest little mustache, and cheeks like cherries, so delicate and soft, one could have bitten right into them.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
It's the duckiest, darlingest Ouija board, and so cheap!
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough
The duckiest thing—I never saw anything so perfectly dandy and wonderful!
From The Avalanche by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
“There are the duckiest little yachts I have ever seen skimming about on that stretch of water,” she cried over her shoulder.
From Cynthia's Chauffeur by Louis Tracy
There are two of them, the duckiest little fluffy darlings you ever saw.
From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane
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