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
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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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
He watched through his window as a wall of mud came barreling toward them, carrying boulders the size of trucks “like a rubber ducky on a pond.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
The laptop is amazing, and I love the rubber ducky.
From The Verge ● Jul. 25, 2022
"Nothing embodies childhood more than being in a warm bath with your rubber ducky – the joy of not having a care in the world other than having to remember to wash behind our ears."
From Fox News ● Aug. 25, 2021
“Well,” the lady crooned, with a wink that only the children could see, “that’s just ducky, Your Lordship, sir!”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
They are digitally inserted into dream tableaux — floating in a bed surrounded by giant rubber duckies, piloting a barrel with feet toward a parrot in a cowboy boot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024
A Stormtrooper action figure, a racing Sonic the Hedgehog, Legos and rubber duckies.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
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
Sometimes, accidental spills from container ships carrying everything from tennis shoes to rubber duckies to millions of ocean-themed Lego pieces provide an inadvertent means of tracking ocean currents.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 25, 2015
I sang through All the little duckies in my head.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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 Macfarlane, J.
We can have the duckiest times, flying around!
From The Thunder Bird by Bower, B. M.
Torquay is just a watering-place, with big hotels, terraces, and gardens, but oh! it is so lovely, and nearby is the duckiest little village of Cockington!
From John and Betty's History Visit by Williamson, Margaret
Some of the letters begin with 'Dearest, duckiest, handsomest Herby'—short for Herbert; and others, 'Fondest, blondest, darlingest Micky-moo!'
From The Sorcery Club by O'Donnell, Elliott
Anyhow," Carrissima continued quite humbly, "I went to Donaldson's—Phoebe, I saw the duckiest little opal brooch.
From Enter Bridget by Cobb, Thomas
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