Word.ws English Dictionary

ruddy ducks

ruddy ducks is the plural of ruddy duck.

Meaning of ruddy duck

Noun

ruddy duck (plural ruddy ducks)

  1. Oxyura jamaicensis, a small stifftail duck, the male of which has a rust-coloured body.
    • Except when migrating, the ruddy duck seldom flies.[…]If disturbed by a predator, the ruddy duck dives to escape.2004, Laurie E. Likoff, The Encyclopedia of Birds, volume 1, page 802
    Synonyms:
    sleepyhead

Questions about ruddy ducks

What is ruddy ducks the plural of?
Ruddy ducks is the plural of ruddy duck.

Words near ruddy ducks in the dictionary

  1. rudds
  2. ruddy
  3. ruddy diver
  4. ruddy divers
  5. ruddy duck
  6. ruddy ducks
  7. ruddy ground dove
  8. ruddy ground doves
  9. ruddy Nora
  10. ruddy shelduck
  11. ruddy shelducks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ruddy ducks (page history and authors); ruddy duck (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:

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