Word.ws English Dictionary

Duckburg

Syllables: Duck·burg/ˈdʌkbɜˑɡ/US/ˈdʌkbɝɡ/

Duckburg proper noun: a fictional city, located in the fictional US state of Calisota, that serves as the home of Donald Duck, his surrounding cast, and several other anthropomorphic animals.

Proper noun

Duckburg

  1. A fictional city, located in the fictional US state of Calisota, that serves as the home of Donald Duck, his surrounding cast, and several other anthropomorphic animals.
    • Self-contempt follows megalomania fast on its heels: The Vorarlberg Rhine valley has the settlement structure of Los Angeles – a Duckburg-like reduced Los Angeles to be sure, in which almost only Mickey Mice live, scarcely a Donald Duck, surely no Uncle Scrooge Duck, not even a Gladstone Gander...1999, Kathleen Sagmeister with Otto Kapfinger and Kunsthaus Bregenzaut, Architecture in Vorarlberg Since 1980: A Guide to 260 Noteworthy Buildings, Hatje, →ISBN
    • And [Springfield is] east to Duckburg, Calistoa?^([sic])1999 August 6, grosse, “Re: where is springfield?”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet), message-ID <1AEq3.97$l53.8405@typ12.nn.bcandid.com>

Noun

Duckburg (plural Duckburgs)

  1. (derogatory, often, slang) A small, rural, or provincial town.
    • Willie stuck out his hand and Skinner gave it a cursory squeeze, then breezed past him. “C'mon, man, get out of this here goddamn rain!” He sailed into the airport lobby and stopped up short. “My God,” he cried, “what a Duckburg this place is.” […]1980, Winston Groom, As Summers Die, Pocket Books, published 1995, →ISBN
    • Let them lambast Miami, give the hundred-bestplaces-to-live-in awards to the Orlandos and the Duckburgs, let the walking oatmeal of the race go live in such places and leave Driscoll to his Doc Jameroskis and Ray Brisas and the guys off the street who'd take a dollar not to steal his hubcaps.1998, Les Standiford, Presidential Deal: A John Deal Mystery, Poisoned Pen Press Inc., published 2011, →ISBN, page 206

Duckburg meaning in Hindi, Gujarati, Arabic and Indonesian

Duckburg in Hindi

fictional city where Donald Duck lives
डकबर्ग Ḍakbarg

Duckburg in Gujarati

fictional city where Donald Duck lives
ડકબર્ગ Ḍakbarg

Duckburg in Arabic

fictional city where Donald Duck lives
مَدِينَة البَطّ madīnat al-baṭṭ

Duckburg in Indonesian

fictional city where Donald Duck lives
Kota Bebek

Examples of Duckburg in a sentence

  • The nation 'Nationwide', like the inhabitants of Duckburg, seems to be principally concerned with the process of consumption.2005, Charlotte Brunsdon, David Morley, The Nationwide Television Studies, →ISBN:
  • Now, of course, some would argue that even if someone were stuffing a large fraction of the money supply into a money bin sitting on a hill in Duckburg, Say’s Law could continue to hold.2013 March 13, Louis Woodhill, “Sorry Paul Krugman, But We Still Need Say's Law”, in Forbes:
  • What if your counterparty is the airport of Duckburg?2013, Damiano Brigo, Massimo Morini, Andrea Pallavicini, Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding, →ISBN:

Forms of Duckburg

pluralDuckburgs

Origin of Duckburg

From duck + -burg. Coined by Carl Barks in 1944, for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #49.

Questions about Duckburg

What does Duckburg mean?
Duckburg means a fictional city, located in the fictional US state of Calisota, that serves as the home of Donald Duck, his surrounding cast, and several other anthropomorphic animals.
What is Duckburg in Hindi?
Duckburg in Hindi is डकबर्ग (Ḍakbarg). See Duckburg meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Duckburg in a sentence?
The nation 'Nationwide', like the inhabitants of Duckburg, seems to be principally concerned with the process of consumption.
What part of speech is Duckburg?
Duckburg can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Duckburg?
Duckburg is pronounced /ˈdʌkbɝɡ/ (US).

Words near Duckburg in the dictionary

  1. duckblinds
  2. duckboard
  3. duckboarded
  4. duckboarding
  5. duckboards
  6. Duckburg
  7. duckburger
  8. duckburgers
  9. Duckburgs
  10. duckcloth
  11. duckcloths

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Duckburg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Duckburg.wav.

Cite this entry: “Duckburg.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/duckburg. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.