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duckmeat

duckmeat noun: the flesh of a duck.

Noun

duckmeat (uncountable)

  1. The flesh of a duck.
    • But what about all those plucked bodies? Why, with the duvet boom, has the price of duckmeat not fallen to rock bottom, dipped below scrag and coley? Why do the kids not queue at chippies for ten pennorth of duck and a bag of beaks for the cat?1979, Alan Coren, “A Little Touch of Harry in the Night”, in The Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 158
    • The menu grand-mère features all kinds of down-to-earth local dishes that a Périgourdine grandmother might be expected to turn out—such as canard Lucullus as an hors d’oeuvre, a thick slice of various bits of duckmeat, pressed in a roll, and filled with an intriguing variety of textures and...1996, Dana Facaros, Michael Pauls, “King Truffle”, in Lazy Days Out in the Dordogne and the Lot (Cadogan Gourmet Guides), London: Cadogan Books, →ISBN, page 174
    Synonyms:
    duck, duckflesh
  2. (archaic) Synonym of duckweed.
    Synonyms:
    duckweed

Synonyms of duckmeat

Origin of duckmeat

From duck + meat. * (duckweed): Because it is eaten by ducks.

Questions about duckmeat

What does duckmeat mean?
Duckmeat means the flesh of a duck.
What part of speech is duckmeat?
Duckmeat is a noun.

Words near duckmeat in the dictionary

  1. Duckmaloi
  2. duckman
  3. Duckmans
  4. Duckmantian
  5. Duckmanton
  6. duckmeat
  7. duckmen
  8. duckmole
  9. duckmoles
  10. duckness
  11. duckpin

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