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
Armed with glue guns partyers squished together and created their ducky art projects resulting in plenty of laughter.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2023
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
“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
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
To break the tension, Mr. Siegal brought rubber duckies to a colleague for his baths.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
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
He was holding one of Robin’s rubber duckies.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
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
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 Margaret Williamson
Anyhow," Carrissima continued quite humbly, "I went to Donaldson's—Phoebe, I saw the duckiest little opal brooch.
From Enter Bridget by Thomas Cobb
We can have the duckiest times, flying around!
From The Thunder Bird by B. M. Bower
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 Elliott O'Donnell
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