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duckhood

duckhood noun: the state or quality of being a duck.

Noun

duckhood (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being a duck.
    • Thus the plucked duck ready for roasting, lacking feathers, ability to fly, webbed feet, long flat bill, fertility in breeding with other ducks, and any other of the usually used symptoms of duckhood, may be still much closer to ducks in the n-dimensional attribute space than to any other natural...1988, Donald T. Campbell, E. Samuel Overman, Methodology and Epistemology for Social Sciences: Selected Papers
    Synonyms:
    duckness

Synonyms of duckhood

Origin of duckhood

From duck + -hood.

Questions about duckhood

What does duckhood mean?
Duckhood means the state or quality of being a duck.
What part of speech is duckhood?
Duckhood is a noun.

Words near duckhood in the dictionary

  1. duckfoots
  2. duckfucker
  3. duckfuckers
  4. duckhead
  5. duckheads
  6. duckhood
  7. duckie
  8. duckier
  9. duckies
  10. duckiest
  11. duckin'

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