teal

en-noun

teal (countable and uncountable, plural teals)

From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923. The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).

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In a bid to defend their inner-city seats, the Liberal Party has moved towards the environmental and progressive left in what can be described as a “teal strategy” that blurs the lines between the Liberals and the Greens.

2021 September 21, Kurt Wallace, “Navigating the great dividing voter range”, in IPA Today, Institute of Public Affairs:

Concerns of a targeted dirty tricks campaign targeting “teal” independents has prompted the Australian Electoral Commission to bring in its electoral integrity assurance taskforce as pre-polling opens.

2022 May 9, “AEC mobilises taskforce to investigate corflute damage”, in Sydney Morning Herald, page 10:

Ms Haines is a strong proponent of this, and many of the teal cross benchers support her approach to appointing a whistleblower protection commissioner.

2022 September 26, “Teals, Greens list watchdog demands”, in The Canberra Times, page 6:

(countable, Australia, politics, chiefly attributive) A teal independent.


duck

Potteries dialect, Black Country dialect and dialects of the former territory of Mercia (central England). Compare Danish dukke (“doll”), Swedish docka (“baby; doll”), dialectal English doxy (“sweetheart”).

Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?

(Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).


whistler

From Middle English whisteler, whistlar, whystelare, from Old English hwistlere (“a player on a flute; a piper”), equivalent to whistle + -er.

inh

A goldeneye (any of certain ducks of genus Bucephala).


mallard

From Middle English malard, mawlard, mawdelard, from Old French malard, malart, mallart (“male wild duck”), from Old French male, masle (“male”) + -ard, -art. Cognate with Medieval Latin maslardus, mallardus.

Anas platyrhynchos
Anas platyrhynchos#Translingual

Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.

rosa e vëndit

a common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos


mandarin

→ Irish: mandairín

From Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, from Malay menteri, manteri, and its source, Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, an agent suffix). In Chinese folk etymology, the word originates from Mandarin 滿大人／满大人 (Mǎndàrén, literally “Manchu important man”).

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LIKE THE MANDARINS of old, the rulers of China live behind high walls. When they emerge, which they rarely do, they travel in cars with rear windows curtained like sedan chairs.
They live in the Chung Nan Hai, a walled park adjacent to the Forbidden City from where ancient dynasties ruled the Celestial Empire.

1991, Chris Mullin, The Year of the Fire Monkey (Fiction), London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252:

(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.


duckling

From Middle English dokeling, dukling, dookelynge (“duckling”), equivalent to duck + -ling.

Good night, darling; take that kiss to your respected mother, and tell her with my compliments that we can’t afford to make ducks and drakes of the romance of our little pet’s life: she will hatch those birds for herself in due time, and remain cluck-clucking, wisely, but sadly, like a perplexed old hen, when her ducklings and drakelings have unexpectedly taken the water.

1858, “Edith Clarel: A Story from Three Points of View”, in The Money Bag: Literature, Politics, Finance, volume I, number 4, London: Daniel F. Oakey, […], page 232:

Referring to Table 1 it will be seen that if a breeding duck produces 40 marketable progeny each year (and in practice this should be achieved) half of which are ducklings and the other half drakelings, and these birds realise 2s. per lb. live weight, then that breeding duck would return approximately £15 10s. over feeding costs for the 12 months.

1951, Supplement to the Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, volume 28, page 216:

Muscovy ducks with ducklings. This is the most popular breed for table purposes. They make weights of up to 5 lb. for ducklings at 13 to 14 weeks, and up to 9 lb. for drakelings at 16 weeks when correctly handled.

1961, Allan A[rthur] McArdle, Poultry Management and Production (Agricultural and Livestock Series), Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson, page 563:


drake

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.


marionette

Borrowed from French marionnette. The word originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious theatrical presentations, finally generalised to any puppet.

If you think we are worked by strings,
Like a Japanese marionette,
You don't understand these things:
It is simply Court etiquette.

1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:

A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.


redhead

I like redheads. Their mouths are like a drop of strawberry jam in a glass of milk.

2007, Matthew Weiner, “Red in the Face”, in Mad Men, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Roger Sterling:

Aythya americana
Aythya americana#Translingual

A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.

Sarcogyps calvus
Sarcogyps calvus#Translingual


flapper

In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.

2004, David Day, Albert Jackson, Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to, page 356:


cracker

From crack + -er. From crack (verb), the sound made when one is broken. The hard "bread" and "biscuit" sense is first attested in 1739. The computing senses of cracker, crack, and cracking were promoted in the 1980s as an alternative to hacker, by programmers concerned about negative public associations of hack, hacking (“creative computer coding”). See Citations:cracker. Various theories exist regarding the term's application to poor white Southerners. One theory holds that it originated with disadvantaged corn and wheat farmers (corncrackers), who cracked their crops rather than taking them to the mill. Another theory asserts that it was applied due to Georgia and Florida settlers (Florida crackers) who cracked loud whips to drive herds of cattle, or, alternatively, from the whip cracking of plantation slave drivers. Yet another theory maintains that the term cracker was in use in Elizabethan times to describe braggarts (see crack (“to boast”)); a letter from 1766 supports this theory.

Brothers and the whiteys / Blacks and the crackers / Police and their backers / They're all political actors

1970, “(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go”, in Curtis, performed by Curtis Mayfield:

Check this shit: You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!

1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Hooper (Dwight Ewell):

“You know that old cracker beat them boys.”

2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 202:

(US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).


eider

From Icelandic æðar, genitive of æðr, probably reaching English via Swedish eider (now ejder), from a North Germanic root.

Any of the species of the genera Polysticta or Somateria, in the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies).


ruddy

en-adj

ruddy (comparative ruddier, superlative ruddiest)

ruddier (comparative)
ruddiest (superlative)

From Middle English ruddy, rody, rudi, from Old English rudiġ (“reddish; ruddy”), from rudu (“redness”), equivalent to rud (“redness”) + -y. Compare Icelandic roði (“redness”).
The British slang sense expressing irritation is presumably a euphemism for bloody.

Frank, who is narrow and ruddy, and who tended to wear a shirt and tie with a cherry-red beanie pulled low over one ear, swapped his white butcher’s coat for a puffer jacket, and led me outside

2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:

Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.


ruddy

In winter, snow geese land at West Pond, a Robert Moses legacy that ought to be called Duck Soup: at this time of year look for ruddies, greater scaups, Northern pintails, American widgeons and gadwalls.

2007 November 4, Deborah Baldwin, “Close to Nature, and the Airport”, in New York Times:

Ground doves — two ruddies are shown here — are so called because they feed on the ground.

1987, Jürgen Nicolai, A Complete Introduction to Finches, Tfh Publications Incorporated, →ISBN, page 89:

Understandably, birders in the U.S. are advised to carefully distinguish Ruddies from the usually more-expected Common Ground-Doves [...]. (Brightly-colored, pinkish adult male Common Ground-Doves have been misidentified as male Ruddies on several occasions, however.) Unless the fortunate birder happens upon a Ruddy Ground-Dove amongst a flock of sparrows, it will often be necessary to sort through innumerable Inca Doves.

Common Ground-Dove — Fairly common permanent resident of better-watered valleys at lower elevations. Avoids town [...] Ironically, Ruddies often ignore the little flocks of closely related Commons, and choose to associate with Inca Doves.

2005, Richard Cachor Taylor, A Birder's Guide to Southeastern Arizona, page 237:

Out-of-state birders seeking Ruddy Ground Doves should be aware of two things. Ruddies associate much more frequently with Inca Doves than with Common Ground Doves. In fact, in eleven personal sightings of this species in Arizona, I have never seen a Ruddy with a Common nor has anyone else I know. [...] Perhaps this is a slow invasion, and forty years hence Ruddies will be so common ...

2008, Jim Burns, Jim Burns' Arizona Birds: From the Backyard to the Backwoods, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 28:


ruddy

en-verb

ruddy (third-person singular simple present ruddies, present participle ruddying, simple past and past participle ruddied)

ruddies (present singular third-person)
ruddying (participle present)
ruddied (participle past)
ruddied (past)

The sunset ruddied our faces.

It ruddied all the copse-wood glen

1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:


scoter

When I went birdwatching, I saw lots of scoters.

Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Melanitta.


scaup

See scalp (“a bed of oysters or mussels”).

Or spot gaggles of Canada geese, ducks and scaups flying over schools of bluefish.

2009 March 29, Deborah Baldwin, “A Waterside Village With a Big-City Backdrop”, in New York Times:

Any of three species of small diving duck in the genus Aythya.


merganser

From Late Latin merganser, from Latin mergus (“waterfowl, diver”), from mergō (“to dip, immerse”) + ānser (“goose”).

Any of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.


surfer

→ Japanese: サーファー

Melanitta perspicillata
Melanitta perspicillata#Translingual

(obsolete) A duck, the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata).


anatine

en-adj

anatine (comparative more anatine, superlative most anatine)

more anatine (comparative)
most anatine (superlative)

From Latin anatīnus, from anas, anatis (“a duck”) + -inus (“-ine”).

(zoology) Being of the family Anatidae, comprising the swans, geese, and ducks.


whim

en-noun

whim (countable and uncountable, plural whims)

Let ev’ry Man enjoy his whim; / What’s He to Me, or I to him?

1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost, book IV, J. Coote, →OCLC, page 137:

The king was tired of this whim of hers long ago, and thought she ought to get married like other people; there was nothing she need wait for, she was old enough and she would not be any richer either, for she was to have half the kingdom, which she inherited after her mother.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 269:

“You’re either with me or you’re against me” became Dany’s credo, and those against her were an ever-changing multitude to be determined solely by her whims.

2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2019-05-22:

A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea.

(mining) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes


whim

en-verb

whim (third-person singular simple present whims, present participle whimming, simple past and past participle whimmed)

whims (present singular third-person)
whimming (participle present)
whimmed (participle past)
whimmed (past)

(rare, intransitive) To be seized with a whim; to be capricious.


loggerhead

From logger (“(dialectal) heavy wooden block secured to a horse's leg to prevent it from straying”) + head. Logger was apparently coined because its sound connotes a clumsy, heavy object; compare log (“trunk of a dead tree; bulky piece of wood”).

compound

Loggerheads, from the resemblance of its knobbed involucres to a weapon so called, consisting of a ball of iron at the end of a stick, the knapweed, the Clobbewed of old MSS. Centaurea nigra, L.

1863, R[ichard] C[handler] A[lexander] Prior, “Loggerheads”, in On the Popular Names of British Plants, […], London, Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, […], →OCLC, page 137:

Bolwes, loggerheads, centaurea nigra. […] Bolwes is balls, the hard round heads of the wort. Loggerheads is a name I have often heard in Oxfordshire.

1866, “Saxon Names of Worts and Trees”, in Oswald Cockayne, editor, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England. […] (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores), volume III, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, →OCLC, page 315, column 1:

(Midlands, dialectal, often in the plural) A thistle-like flowering plant of the genus Centaurea, particularly the common knapweed (Centaurea nigra).

But here is a ſpecies of ducks, called the loggerhead, from its large head. They have ſhort wings, are unable to fly, and only ſwim and flap along on the water at an extraordinary rate.

1775 November 9, William Clayton, “V. An Account of the Falkland Islands”, in Philosophical Transactions, of the Royal Society of London, volume XLVI, part I, number 446, London: Printed by W[illiam] Bowyer and J[ohn] Nichols; for Lockyer Davis, […], printer to the Royal Society, published 1776, →OCLC, page 104:

A ſpecies of duck, as large as a gooſe, and called the loggerhead duck at the Falkland Iſlands, is here met with, which beats the water with its wings and feet, and runs along the ſea with inconceivable velocity; […]

1810 July, Jedidiah Morse, “Terra del Fuego Island”, in The American Gazetteer, Exhibiting a Full Account of the Civil Divisions, Rivers, Harbors, Indian Tribes, &c. of the American Continent: […], 3rd revised and corrected edition, Boston, Mass.: Thomas & Andrews […], →OCLC:

Micropterus cinereus (Gm.). (Loggerhead Duck.) This Duck, which is called the ‘Loggerhead’ in the Falkland Islands, frequents the salt water. […] Looking for the Loggerhead’s eggs, which are esteemed a great delicacy, is a great amusement to all the boys in Stanley.

1861 April, C[harles] C[onrad] Abbott, “XV.—Notes on the Birds of the Falkland Islands”, in Philip Lutley Sclater, editor, The Ibis, a Magazine of General Ornithology, volume III, number X, London: N[icholas] Trübner and Co., […], →OCLC, paragraph 42, page 161:

Tachyeres brachypterus
Tachyeres brachypterus#Translingual

Used as the name of various animals with large heads.

The loggerhead duck or Falkland steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus; formerly Tachyeres cinereus), a species of steamer duck endemic to the Falkland Islands.

[E]arly in the season, a pair of Loggerheads, Tyrannus caudifasciatus, appropriated the same tree to themselves, and commenced constructing their nest. The Mocking birds were seen constantly in the square, but never interrupted or interfered with them until they had nearly completed the nest; they then drove away the Loggerheads, took possession of it, added a few sticks to the outwork, laid the eggs and hatched the young brood. The poor Loggerheads hovered about the place in great distress for a few days, but never attempted to regain possession of their property.

1863 October–November, W. T. March, S[pencer] F[ullerton] Baird, “(Communicated by the Smithsonian Institution.) Notes on the Birds of Jamaica. […]”, in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, number 6, Philadelphia, Pa.: Academy of Natural Sciences, […], →OCLC, page 291:

loggerhead kingbird
loggerhead kingbird#English

The loggerhead kingbird (Tyrannus caudifasciatus), a bird endemic to the Caribbean and West Indies.

[…] I have received here also one of the parent birds, and in this instance I have been again surprised to learn that it is the Loggerhead, and not borealis or excubitoroides, that is the species referred to. […] So that we have in all ten well-authenticated instances of the Loggerhead breeding in the very heart of two of the most northerly of the New England States.

1879 April, T[homas] M[ayo] Brewer, “General Notes. [The Loggerhead Shrike (Colluro ludovicianus) Breeding in Northern New England.]”, in Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, volume IV, number 2, Cambridge, Mass.: Published by the [Nuttall Ornithological] Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119:

Lanius ludovicianus
Lanius ludovicianus#Translingual

The loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), a bird endemic to North America.

Sternotherus minor (Agassiz) / Loggerhead musk-turtle / […] Most numerous in large calcareous springs, where they may be seen at night wandering around on the bottom, especially about piles of debris.

1940 January, Archie Fairly Carr, Jr., “Annotated List”, in A Contribution to the Herpetology of Florida (University of Florida Biological Science Series; vol. III, no. 1), [Gainesville, Fla.]: University of Florida, →OCLC, page 96:

The loggerhead (S[ternotherus] m[inor] minor) and stripe-necked (S. m. peltifer) musk turtles represent two distinct subspecies of a species with a tan to brown carapace with black streaking and overlapping scutes down the center of the carapace. […] The head of old loggerhead musk turtles becomes disproportionately enlarged, as does the front half of the entire shell.

2008, Kurl Buhlmann, Tracey Tuberville, Whit Gibbons, “Loggerhead and Striped-head Musk Turtles”, in Turtles of the Southeast (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book), Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 131:

loggerhead musk turtle
loggerhead musk turtle#English

The loggerhead musk turtle (Sternotherus minor), a large-headed turtle endemic to the United States.

The Loggerhead is ſo called from the largeneſs of its head, which is much bigger in proportion than that of other kinds. The fleſh of this alſo is very rank, and not eaten but in caſe of neceſſity.

1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of the Tortoise, and Its Kinds”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume VI, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, part IV (Of Crustaceous and Testaceous Fishes), page 361:

[O]ur boat was hoisted out, and a loggerhead turtle struck as it was sleeping on the surface of the water. […] Dr. Patrick Browne, in his Natural History of Jamaica, mentions the hawksbill, the green turtle, and the loggerhead only. […] The loggerhead from which his description was taken was caught near the Western Islands, many leagues out at sea.

1850 November, “Leaves from the Note-book of a Naturalist. Part XI.”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XLII, number CCLI, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], →OCLC, page 548:

The currest estimated number of loggerhead females nesting annually from North Carolina to Key Biscayne, Florida is 20,640 (± 6,328). This nesting level has been relatively stable since 1980 and accounts for about 98 percent of all loggerhead nesting within the continental United States.

1987 February 20, “Affected Environment”, in Draft Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement on Listing and Protecting the Green Sea Turtle, Loggerhead Sea Turtle and the Pacific Ridley Sea Turtle under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, [Washington, D.C.]: Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, →OCLC, section III.A.1 (Loggerheads), page 33:

loggerhead sea turtle
loggerhead sea turtle#English

Caretta caretta
Caretta caretta#Translingual

The loggerhead sea turtle or loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), an oceanic turtle found throughout the world.


Peking duck

Calque from Chinese 北京烤鴨／北京烤鸭 (Běijīng kǎoyā). Same as Peking + duck.

zh-l

北京烤鴨／北京烤鸭 (Běijīng kǎoyā)

During out third day in Peking, we received word that Premier Chou En-lai would have dinner with us. We sat in a banquet room in the Great Hall of the People and enjoyed a fabulous meal of Peking duck.

1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 94:

As restaurants in the Chinese capital drift in the doldrums of a COVID ban on dining in, one eatery manager and his army of chefs have set up stalls on the pavement to keep alive some of the old magic and drum up sales of their big seller, Peking duck.[…]"Our Peking duck sales have even gone up," Zheng, 35, told Reuters outside his restaurant as a queue of customers waited.

2022 May 18, Thomas Suen Suen, Ryan Woo, Ellen Zhang, “COVID or no COVID, Beijing diners won't be denied their Peking duck”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-18, China:

A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.


seaduck

Any large duck found in coastal waters, especially those of the subfamily Merginae.


goldeneye

/ˈɡəʊldənaɪ/

Any of several flowering plants of the subtribe Helianthinae.


steamer

From steam + -er. The steamer duck or steamer (sense 6.2) is apparently named for its resemblance to a paddle steamer when swimming rapidly.


diving duck

Coordinate term: dabbling duck

Any of the ducks that feed mainly by diving such as pochards and scaups, of species in tribe Aythyini.


dabbling duck

One of the ducks of species in subfamily Anatinae, that feed by dabbling in shallow water, including mallards and teals.


pochard

Apparently originally from poach (“to poke”) + -ard. Compare poker.

Aythya ferina
Aythya ferina#Translingual

Any of various diving ducks of the subfamily Aythyinae (genera Aythya and Netta), especially the common pochard, Aythya ferina.

Tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełí bitsiiʼ halchíiʼii


zuisin

Probably from an Algonquian language; compare Ojibwe zhiishiib (“duck”).


goosander

Blend of goose + gander. The oldest known use is by Drayton (1622).

As they above the rest were Lords of Earth and Ayre.
The Gossander with them, my goodly Fennes doe show
His head as Ebon blacke, the rest as white as Snow,

1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 25 p. 106:

Mergus merganser
Mergus merganser#Translingual

A merganser, Mergus merganser, of the northern hemisphere. They eat fish and are common on lakes and rivers.


wigeon

Early 16th century. Probably from Middle French vigeon, from Old French vigeon, vingeon (“wigeon”), from Old French vignier (“to whine or shout”) + -on (“noun suffix”).


gadwall

Origin unknown. In use since the 17th century.

unknown

Origin unknown

Mareca strepera
Mareca strepera#Translingual

Anas strepera
Anas strepera#Translingual

A common, widespread dabbling duck which breeds in the northern hemisphere (Mareca strepera, syn. Anas strepera).


shelduck

Any of various waterfowl of the genus Tadorna, native to Eurasia, Africa and Australasia.


garganey

From the Italian/Lombard language word gargenei, variant of garganello, by dissimilation of earlier *gargalella, diminutive of *gargala, ultimately from Late Latin gargala (“tracheal artery”), from the root *garg (“throat”), imitative of gargling, see also Ancient Greek γαργαρεών (gargareṓn, “uvula, trachea”).
The English usage owes its origins to Conrad Gesner, who used the Italian name in the third volume of his Historiae Animalium (History of Animals) of 1555.

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

Anas querquedula
Anas querquedula#Translingual

A small dabbling duck, Anas querquedula, that breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, and winters in Africa.


smew

unknown

Origin unknown

Mergellus albellus
Mergellus albellus#Translingual

A small compact diving duck, Mergellus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes.


pintail

A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.

A northern pintail, Anas acuta, a dabbling duck of the northern hemisphere that has a long pointed tail.

Gallinago stenura
Gallinago stenura#Translingual

The collar is placed over the fastener pintail and the installation tool is placed over the pintail. The tool pulls on the pin drawing the parts together until the collar is swaged into locking grooves.

1994, James William Fitch, Motor Truck Engineering Handbook, page 110:

(engineering) The end of a fastening pin or mandrel on a Huckbolt or pop rivet that is broken off when installation is complete.


shoveler

From Middle English shoulere, shovellewre, shovelere, schoueler, alteration of earlier schovelerd, schulerde, schevelard (“shovelard”), from schovel (“shovel”), perhaps influenced by malard (“mallard”), on model of Middle Dutch lepelaar (“spoonbill”), with Middle English -ard replacing -aar and later itself replaced by Middle English -er, but not completely certain. Probably at least influenced by the shape of the bill and its feeding behavior.

Any of four species of dabbling duck, in the genus Anas, with distinctive spatulate bills.


scooter

→ Bengali: স্কুটার (skuṭar)

→ Catalan: escúter

→ Czech: skútr

→ Danish: scooter

→ Dutch: scooter

→ Finnish: skootteri

→ French: scooter

→ German: Scooter

→ Italian: scooter

→ Japanese: スクーター (sukūtā)

→ Korean: 스쿠터 (seukuteo)

→ Malay: skuter

→ Norwegian Bokmål: scooter

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: scooter

→ Polish: skuter

→ Portuguese: scooter

→ Romanian: scuter

→ Spanish: escúter; scooter

→ Swedish: skoter

سْكُوتَر

type of motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame — see also motor scooter

A kick scooter or push scooter; a human-powered land vehicle with a handlebar, deck and wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground.

An electric version of the kick scooter.

A mobility scooter; an electric-powered scooter specially designed for disabled and/or elderly people.

інвалі́дная каля́ска

electric scooter for disabled — see also mobility scooter

An ice scooter; a type of flat-bottomed, buoyant ice yacht used in the state of New York, equipped with runners for traveling over ice.

Any of the large, black ducks of the genus Melanitta; the scoter.

Bow Pocket Scooter […] Pull-on twill scooter with three-pleat front, […]

2017, Classroom Uniforms Catalog 2017, page 6:

With thoughtful details like shorts hidden under scooters, wrinkle-resistant, moisture-wicking fabrics, power knees and strength, stretch, and adjustability exactly where growing kids need it most, […]

2021, French Toast Catalog 2022, page 10:

A scooter skirt (skort), especially when worn by girls as part of a school uniform.


garrot

A seaduck of the genus Bucephala; a goldeneye.


butterball

The skipper had his eye on a bunch of butterballs feeding not far from the boat. In fact there were ducks all around — though he did not tell me so.

1917, Hunter-Trader-Trapper, volume 34, page 37:

Bucephala albeola
Bucephala albeola#Translingual

A small North American duck, the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola.


Campbell

* As a Scottish surname, from Scottish Gaelic Caimbeul, from cam (“crooked”) + beul (“mouth”). Compare Cameron, from Scottish Gaelic cam (“crooked”) + sròn (“nose”).
* As an Irish surname, from Mac Cathmhaoil (“son of Cathmhaol”), see Caulfield, Cowell.
* As an English surname, variant of Camel, probably influenced by the above.
* (duck breed): Developed by Adele Campbell.

Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A city in Santa Clara County, California.

A minor city in Wilkin County, Minnesota.

Former name of Kintyre, Emmons County, North Dakota.


scolder

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-scolder.wav


blackhead

en-noun

blackhead (countable and uncountable, plural blackheads)

Coordinate term: whitehead

See there! A son is born
And we pronounce him fit to fight
There are blackheads on his shoulders
And he pees himself in the night.

1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:

Wallace sees a cluster of tiny blackheads at the corner of his nose.

2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 215:

(countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.

(uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.

(countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.


whitehead

A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla)


Burdekin duck

Burdekin duck (countable and uncountable, plural Burdekin ducks)

From Burdekin (“a surname”); named after the Burdekin River, Queensland, which in turn was named for Mrs. Thomas Burdekin, who provided assistance to the expedition during which the river was discovered (by Europeans).

1977, Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery, Rigby, 1977, →ISBN (discussing 19th century cookery),
even the exotic-sounding "Burdekin duck" consists of nothing more than slices of cold beef fried in batter.

It was loaded with food; sponge-cakes each higher and lighter than the next and oozing frothy cream, plates of sandwiches, egg and lettuce, corned-beef and pickle, and ‘Burdekin Duck’ made of bacon and tomato and cheese squashed up.

2010, Marion Houldsworth, The Morning Side of the Hill, page 214:

You could turn corned beef into Burdekin Duck by putting strips of cold corned beef into batter, and puftalooners could be made with balls of premixed damper thrown into hot fat, and damper could be turned into brownies with sultanas and currants

2010, Jill Bowen, Kidman The Forgotten King, unnumbered page:

(Australia, uncountable, obsolete) A food dish made from leftovers or ingredients to hand, usually including corned beef.


squealer

American golden plover
American golden plover


eiderdown

eiderdown (countable and uncountable, plural eiderdowns)

A great sea lifted us high and, crashing down with a deafening roar, carried us swiftly along on light foam as soft as eiderdown.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 80:

(uncountable) The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.


poacher

Anas americana
Anas americana#Translingual

(US, dialect) An American wigeon (Anas americana).


canvasback

1857 The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster
Yesterday, I received a great present from Mr. Webster, from Washington; a large basket of canvasback ducks and a large turkey.

The native State of Patrick Henry Hanway was a moss-grown member of the republic and had been one of the original thirteen. It possessed with other impedimenta a moss-grown aristocracy that borrowed money, devoured canvasbacks, drank burgundy, wore spotless tow in summer, clung to the duello, and talked of days of greatness which had been before the war.

1904, Alfred Henry Lewis, “How a President is Bred”, in The President: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A[lfred] S[mith] Barnes and Company, →OCLC, page 24:

Aythya valisineria
Aythya valisineria#Translingual

A North American wild duck, Aythya valisineria, popular as a game bird.


sheldrake

From Middle English sheld- (“parti-colored”) (akin to Middle Dutch shillede) + drake (“male duck”).

An Old World duck of the genus Tadorna (shelducks).


mandarin duck

Coordinate term: wood duck

Mandarin ducks usually pair for life. In Asia they are thought to be a symbol of love and good luck. Mandarin ducks feed mainly on insects, snails, fish, plants and seeds.

2019, Kate Baker, Wild In The City, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 94:

Aix galericulata
Aix galericulata#Translingual

A colorful perching duck that has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face, Aix galericulata.


ruddy shelduck

Tadorna ferruginea
Tadorna ferruginea#Translingual


domestic duck

The domesticated subspecies or form of mallard, sometimes Anas platyrhynchos domesticus or Anas platyrhynchos f. domestica.


hardhead

Aythya australis
Aythya australis#Translingual

A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia.

Nahatʼeʼiitsoh Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ naalʼeełí binááʼ łigaaígíí


Muscovy duck

From Muscovy Company, a trading company + duck.

Other species not protected include "exotic and feral species such as mute swans, graylag geese, muscovy ducks, European starlings, house (English) sparrows, and rock doves (pigeons)."

2001 August 31, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:

Over the water swept the great harpy eagle--also a fisher like his white-headed cousin of the North; and now and then flocks of muscovy ducks made the air resound with their strong broad wings.

1847, Mayne Reid, Popular Adventure Tales:

Cairina moschata
Cairina moschata#Translingual

A large duck (Cairina moschata) which is native to Mexico, Central and South America.


koloa

The Hawaiian duck or koloa (Anas wyvilliana) has never been reduced to anything like the pitiful remnant that once represented its relatives on Laysan.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 83:

Anas wyvilliana
Anas wyvilliana#Translingual


scaly-sided merganser

scaly-sided merganser (plural scaly-sided mergansers)

Mergus squamatus
Mergus squamatus#Translingual

Mergus squamatus, an endangered species of merganser found in eastern Asia


common goldeneye

common goldeneye (plural common goldeneyes)

Bucephala clangula
Bucephala clangula#Translingual

A medium sized sea duck, Bucephala clangula.


Barrow's goldeneye

Barrow's goldeneye (plural Barrow's goldeneyes)

Bucephala islandica
Bucephala islandica#Translingual

A duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala islandica

islandsk hvinand

a duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala islandica


bufflehead

Compound of buffle (“buffalo”) + head, so called for its large head.

A duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala albeola.


common eider

Somateria mollissima
Somateria mollissima#Translingual

A sea duck in the eider family; Somateria mollissima.


steelhead

steelhead (plural steelheads or steelhead)


wood duck

Coordinate term: mandarin duck

A colorful North American duck, Aix sponsa, that nests in hollow trees.


red-breasted merganser

red-breasted merganser (plural red-breasted mergansers)

Mergus serrator
Mergus serrator#Translingual

A species of diving duck, Mergus serrator.


American wigeon

American wigeon (plural American wigeons)


sawbill

red-breasted merganser
red-breasted merganser


tufted duck

Aythya fuligula
Aythya fuligula#Translingual


broadbill

Any of several small passerine birds of the family Eurylaimidae (Asian and Grauer's broadbills) or Calyptomenidae (African and green broadbills).

harlekiini

bird of the family Eurylaimidae or Calyptomenidae


bluebill

Any of the genus Spermophaga of estrildid finches found in tropical Africa.


annet

From Middle English ende, enede, from Old English ened, æned (“drake, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *anad (“duck”), from Proto-Germanic *anadz (“duck”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts (“duck”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oante (“duck”), West Frisian ein (“duck”), Dutch eend (“duck”), German Low German Aant (“duck”), German Ente (“duck”), Norwegian and Swedish and (“duck, mallard”), Icelandic önd (“duck”), Latin anas (“duck, drake”), Lithuanian antis (“duck, mallard”), Russian у́тка (útka, “duck”), Sanskrit आति (ātí, “aquatic bird”).

black-legged kittiwake
black-legged kittiwake

(UK, dialect, West Country, Cornwall, obsolete) A black-legged kittiwake.


velvet scoter

Melanitta fusca
Melanitta fusca#Translingual


harlequin duck

Histrionicus histrionicus
Histrionicus histrionicus#Translingual

A North American wild duck, Histrionicus histrionicus.


Hottentot teal

Anas hottentota
Anas hottentota#Translingual

Anas hottentota, a species of dabbling duck.


red-crested pochard

red-crested pochard (plural red-crested pochards)


mottled duck

Anas fulvigula
Anas fulvigula#Translingual

A medium-sized dabbling duck, Anas fulvigula.


Labrador duck

Camptorhynchus labradorius
Camptorhynchus labradorius#Translingual

†Camptorhynchus labradorius, an extinct sea duck that was never common, believed to be the first bird to become extinct in North America after 1500.


chestnut teal

Anas castanea
Anas castanea#Translingual

Anas castanea, a dabbling duck found in southern Australia.


Mexican duck

Anas diazi, a dabbling duck in the genus Anas which breeds in Mexico and the southern USA.


Cape teal

Anas capensis
Anas capensis#Translingual

Anas capensis, a dabbling duck of open wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa


musk duck

Biziura lobata
Biziura lobata#Translingual

Biziura lobata, a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed duck native to southern Australia.


Laysan duck

Anas laysanensis
Anas laysanensis#Translingual

Anas laysanensis, an endangered dabbling duck endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.


northern shoveler

northern shoveler (plural northern shovelers)

Spatula clypeata
Spatula clypeata#Translingual

Anas clypeata
Anas clypeata#Translingual

Spatula clypeata, formerly Anas clypeata, a duck breeding in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America.


stiff-tailed duck

stiff-tailed duck (plural stiff-tailed ducks)


Baikal teal

Anas formosa, a dabbling duck that breeds within the forest zone of eastern Siberia


ferruginous duck

ferruginous duck (plural ferruginous ducks)

Aythya nyroca
Aythya nyroca#Translingual

Aythya nyroca, a medium-sized diving duck from Eurasia


greater scaup

Aythya marila
Aythya marila#Translingual

A scaup of the species Aythya marila, a bluebill.

naalʼeełí táłtłʼááh nálnoʼí bidaaʼ dootłʼizhígíí


quandy

Many were the coots, quandies, sheldrakes and loons that my father and the captain brought home from the Gurnet gunning trips.

1916, Edmund Brownell Weston, In memoriam, my father and my mother:


oldsquaw

Clangula hyemalis
Clangula hyemalis#Translingual

(dated) A medium-sized seaduck (Clangula hyemalis), now to be called a long-tailed duck.


whitewing

From white + wing. The street sweepers were so called because of the white uniforms they used to wear.


velvetbreast

Mergus merganser
Mergus merganser#Translingual

(US, dated) The goosander (Mergus merganser).


spiketail

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(US, dialect) A pintail duck (Anas spp.).


whewer

Century, Wright's English Dialect Dictionary and the 1933 OED take it to be from whew (“(to make) a shrill whistling sound like the cry of a plover”) + -er, and early cites also call the bird the "whistling widgeon".

Peckards 3—broadbills 5—whewers 2

1634, Althorp MS. in Simpkinson, Washingtons (1860), page xxiii

Boscas, aliis Anas Fistularis … the Whewer, or Whistling Widgeon.

With the Fish I have put up in a Box some Water Fowl, viz. a Pocker, a Smew, three Sheldins, a Widgeon, and a Whewer; which two last are Male and Female of the same kind.

1718 [1674], John Ray, Francis Willughby, Philosophical Letters Between the Late Learned Mr. Ray and Several of His Ingenious Correspondents, Natives and Foreigners: To which are Added Those of Francis Willughby Esq, page 21:

Widgeons are common in Cambridgeshire, the Isle of Ely, &c. where the male is called the widgeon, and the female, the whewer. They feed upon wild periwinkles, grass, weeds, &c. which grow at the bottom of rivers and lakes. Their flesh has a very delicious taste, not inferior to teal, or wild ducks.

1806, Thomas Smith, The Naturalist's Cabinet: Containing Interesting Sketches of Natural History; Illustrative of the Natures, Dispositions, Manners, and Habits of All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Amphibia, Reptiles, &c. in the Known World, page 217:

the choicer fowl of mallard and widgeon (locally "whewers"), both in the Humber and the Tees, the former species being, of course, resident in the county.

1908, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, page 172:

Mareca penelope
Mareca penelope#Translingual

(UK, dialect) whew duck, Eurasian wigeon, wigeon (Mareca penelope).


ruddy duck

From ruddy (“reddish”) + duck, referring to the rust-coloured body of the male.

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:

Since hybridization with the ruddy duck could lead to extinction of the white-headed duck, Spain began to kill its ruddy ducks. Trials to eliminate ruddy ducks from the U.K. began in 1999, and were overseen by a euphemistically named White-headed Duck Task Force.

2008, Roslyn M. Frank, Body, Language, and Mind: Sociocultural situatedness, volume 2, page 170:

The decision was taken, supported by conservation organizations, that it was necessary to save the white-headed duck species by exterminating all members of the ruddy duck species in Europe, which meant mainly in the UK, where there were an estimated 6000 ruddy ducks in 2000.

2010, Jacky Turner, Animal Breeding, Welfare and Society, unnumbered page:

Oxyura jamaicensis
Oxyura jamaicensis#Translingual

Oxyura jamaicensis, a small stifftail duck, the male of which has a rust-coloured body.


wamp

Probably from Massachusett wompi (“white”).


whiffler

(obsolete) One who whiffles, or frequently changes their course or opinion.

Every Whiffler in a Laced Coat, who frequents the Chocolate-Houſe, and is able to ſpell the Title of a Pamphlet, ſhall Talk of the Conſtitution with as much Plauſibility as this very Solemn Writer, and with as good a Grace blame the Clergy for medling with Politicks which they do not underſtand.

1714 February, [Jonathan Swift], The Publick Spirit of the Whigs: Set forth in Their Generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis: […], London: […] [John Barber] for John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 13:

(obsolete) One who argues evasively; a trifler.

(obsolete) One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.

[...] Men, Wiues and Boyes, / Whoſe ſhouts & claps out-voyce the deep-mouth'd Sea, / Which like a mightie Whiffler 'fore the King, / Seems to prepare his way: [...]

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, prologue], page 91, column 1:

Whifflers, or fifers, generally went first in a procession, from which circumstance the name was transferred to other persons who succeeded to that office, and at length was given to those who went forward merely to clear the way for the procession […] In the city of London, young freemen, who march at the head of their proper companies on the Lord Mayor's day, sometimes with flags, were called whifflers, or bachelor whifflers, not because they cleared the way, but because they went first, as whifflers did.

(obsolete) An officer who went before a procession to clear the way, by blowing a horn or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger.


woolhead

Bucephala albeola
Bucephala albeola#Translingual

A species of duck, the bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)


whinyard

Compare English dialect and Scots whingar, whinger; perhaps from Old English winn (“contention, war”) + geard, gyrd (“a staff, rod, yard”); or compare Old English [Term?] (“whistle”, verb), English whine.

It is not a necessary inference that he was wounded, though she says they struck him over her shoulder with whinyards; their object, undoubtedly, was to get him out of the queen's presence in the first place.

1905, John Hill Burton, The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection, volume 4:

(UK, dialect, obsolete) The shoveler, a type of duck.

(UK, dialect, obsolete) The pochard, a type of duck.


bluewing

(usually in the plural) Torenia (wishbone flower)


whistlewing

common goldeneye
common goldeneye#English

Bucephala clangula
Bucephala clangula#Translingual

(dated, Canada, US) The common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula


steamer duck

A bird of the genus Tachyeres in the family Anatidae, the family of duck, goose and swan.


muscovy

The clerks have rejected it as much as they liked; I am told that they admitted somewhere about six thousands of muscovy; during our administration there were 28 or 30 thousands received, which is a large difference without taking into account other qualities, and all this does not give the French much trouble, and at the most for the year we were not informed.

1906, A. C. Laut, Pathfinders of the West:


buffel duck

(archaic) A kind of duck, the bufflehead.


shovelbill

A bird with a spatulate bill; the shoveler.


hareld

(UK, archaic) A long-tailed duck, of species Clangula hyemalis.


baldpate

Peri is in his 70s and has a thick silver mustache and a baldpate covered by a yarmulke.

2013 September 16, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, “What If the Best Remedy for a Broken Family Is No Family at All?”, in Pacific Standard:


bergander

From berg (“burrow”) + gander (“a male goose?”). Compare German Bergente, Danish gravgaas.

Tadorna tadorna
Tadorna tadorna#Translingual

A European duck (Tadorna tadorna), a sheldrake.


shovelard

From Middle English schovelerd, schulerde, schevelard, from schovel (“shovel”), perhaps influenced by malard (“mallard”), on model of Middle Dutch lepelaar (“spoonbill”), with Middle English -ard replacing -aar, but not completely certain.

(UK, dialect) A kind of dabbling duck; the shoveler.


mottled mallard

mottled mallard (plural mottled mallards)


common shelduck

common shelduck (plural common shelducks)


king eider

Somateria spectabilis
Somateria spectabilis#Translingual

A large sea duck that breeds along Arctic coasts, Somateria spectabilis.


doucker

(UK, dialect) Any of a number of swimming birds that dive underwater:


spikebill

Lophodytes cucullatus
Lophodytes cucullatus#Translingual

A hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus).


speckled-belly

greater white-fronted goose
greater white-fronted goose

Anser albifrons
Anser albifrons#Translingual

The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)


harle

red-breasted merganser
red-breasted merganser

(archaic) A bird, the red-breasted merganser.


spinetail

(US, dialect) A ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis).


dendrocygnid

(zoology) Any duck in the family Dendrocygnidae, now considered to be the anatid subfamily Dendrocygninae; a whistling duck or tree duck.


lesser scaup

Aythya affinis
Aythya affinis#Translingual


south-southerly

(archaic) A long-tailed duck of species Clangula hyemalis.


whew duck

→ Welsh: chwiw (“Eurasian wigeon”)


dunter goose

All sorts of Duck and Drake, Dunter-Geese, Cleck-Geese, Ember-Geese &c. they have as in Orkney

1701, John Brand, A Brief Description of Orkney […] :


anatidaephobia

From Anatidae + -phobia. Coined by Gary Larson in 1988 in a Far Side comic.

My regards to the ducks who watched me as I worked and gently encouraged me to stay on track. Even mild anatidaephobia has its uses.

2010, Amber K, True Magick: A Beginner's Guide, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, page 9:

Worse than that, Thomas himself suffered from anatidaephobia, the fear that you were being watched by a duck. As a youth, every time those Aflac commercials came on, Thomas had to retreat to his room in anguish.

2013, Montgomery Trevour Halle-Bouern, Objects in the Mirror Aka Vulture Culture, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 16:

For example, Aflac, the insurance company, posted an ad featuring their duck mascot on the same page as an article about anatidaephobia—the fear that you are being watched by a duck (Figure 1.2).

2014, Ahava Leibtag, The Digital Crown: Winning at Content on the Web, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN:

(humorous) The fear that one is being constantly watched by a duck.


moa-nalo

All of the raptors would have exploited rails, young ibises, and perhaps young moa-nalos, although the eagle was the only one capable of taking adult ibises or moa-nalos.

1994, Storrs L. Olson, Helen F. James, “Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriforms”, in E. Alison Kay, editor, A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands: Selected Readings II, page 451:

1996, Amoco Oil Company, Sixth North American Paleontological Convention: Abstracts of Papers, page 194,
We obtained a collection of coprolites from Thambetochen chauliodous, one of four species of flightless Hawaiian waterfowl known collectively as moa-nalos.

Moa-nalos did not occur on Hawaii, which was occupied by another herbivore, the Giant Hawaiian Goose.

2006, Guy A. Baldassarre, Eric G. Bolen, Waterfowl Ecology and Management, 2nd edition, page 41:

The moa-nalos are a clade of ducks known from subfossils on the main Hawaiian islands.

2012, Michael Heads, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics, page 328:

Any of several extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on some islands of Hawaii from the late Pleistocene until sometime before 1778.


New Zealand teal

New Zealand teal (plural New Zealand teals)


grey teal

Anas gracilis
Anas gracilis#Translingual

a vagrant dabbling duck, Anas gracilis, found in open wetlands in Australasia.


brown teal

Anas chlorotis
Anas chlorotis#Translingual

A member of the dabbling duck subfamily endemic to New Zealand; Anas chlorotis.


New Zealand scaup

New Zealand scaup (plural New Zealand scaups)

Aythya novaeseelandiae
Aythya novaeseelandiae#Translingual

A duck of the Anatinae subfamily endemic to New Zealand; Aythya novaeseelandiae.


velvet duck

Melanitta fusca
Melanitta fusca#Translingual


Pekin duck

Either of two breeds of domestic duck used primarily for egg and meat production.


calloo

This is how the luckless feel / how the calloos [translating allit] think— / like hard snow under a ridge / like water in a deep well.

1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section IV:

The Scots called it the ‘wild calloo’ from the unearthly call it had which seemed almost to bewitch fisher-folk hunting for herring in calm autumn nights off the Scottish Isles.

2012 January 8, Richard Williamson, West Sussex Gazette:

Clangula hyemalis
Clangula hyemalis#Translingual

(chiefly Scotland) The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, an Arctic sea duck.


long-tailed duck

long-tailed duck (plural long-tailed ducks)


northern pintail

northern pintail (plural northern pintails)

A large duck of the species Anas acuta, of wide geographic distribution.

бабыщкӏэпсы́гъуэ

babəśkʼɛpsə́ğʷɛ


pintail duck

Any of a group of dabbling ducks, all in genus Anas, having a characteristic pointed tail.


sheldgoose

Any of several larger bird species in the subfamily Tadorninae of the duck family Anatidae.


surf duck

Melanitta perspicillata
Melanitta perspicillata#Translingual


surf scoter

A species of sea duck, Melanitta perspicillata, which breeds in northern North America.


roan duck

(obsolete) A Rouen duck, a breed of domestic duck.


Eurasian wigeon

Eurasian wigeon (plural Eurasian wigeons)

/jəˌɹeɪʒənˈwɪd͡ʒən/

Mareca penelope
Mareca penelope#Translingual

Mareca penelope, a species of dabbling duck.


whio

The blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) of New Zealand.


rosybill

Netta peposaca
Netta peposaca#Translingual

The rosy-billed pochard, Netta peposaca.


greenwing

Anas carolinensis
Anas carolinensis#Translingual

A common and widespread duck in North America, Anas carolinensis or Anas crecca carolinensis


mulard

Only male mulards are used in foie gras production; the females' livers are considered “too veiny.”

2016, Michaela DeSoucey, Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food, page 49:

A domestic duck that is a hybrid of the Pekin duck and Muscovy duck.


bargoose

(dated, UK, dialect, Southern England) The common shelduck, Tadorna tadorna.


eiderduck

Free and happy as a bird I flew over the billows, in the pilot's light yawl we cruised about among the skerries shooting ducks, eider-ducks, and seals, in his deck-boat we steered out far to sea trolling for mackerel, and when he got a ship to pilot in, I sailed the boat home, sometimes alone, sometimes in company with the pilot's boy.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:


Gressingham duck

Gressingham duck (plural Gressingham ducks)

Named after the village of Gressingham in Lancashire, England, where they were first bred.

A kind of duck bred from a cross of mallards and Pekin ducks.


blue duck

Trout, which have been introduced to New Zealand waterways, may also pose a threat to blue ducks since they almost certainly compete with them for the aquatic insects on which the birds depend.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 83:

Any of species Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos of ducks native to New Zealand.


pink-eared duck

pink-eared duck (plural pink-eared ducks)

The highly nomadic pink-eared duck is likely to be found over a vast area but depends for its living on floodwaters, which are, of course, ephemeral.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 82:

A species of duck, Malacorhynchus membranaceus, endemic to Australia.


Auckland Islands merganser

Auckland Islands merganser (plural Auckland Islands mergansers)

The most curious aspect of the Auckland Islands merganser was its distribution, which at the time of discovery was very limited.

2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 87:

An extinct species of merganser, Mergus australis.


old wife

From Middle English ald wyf, eld wiif, olde wyffe.

A species of perciform fish endemic to the temperate coastal waters of Australia (Enoplosus armatus)


bargander

Thanet has abundance of wild-fowl in a severe winter; and a bird, called the bargander, in Latin, chemaloper, often frequents the marshes and waters in it.

1801, The New Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs Guide:

Here he sees the whirlings of the ducks, hears the booming of the bitterns, the scream of the heron, the whistle of the plover; sees the figure of the wild geese, the deceit of the lapwing, the variegated beauty of the bargander, the single circling of the curlew, the rapid flight of the teal, the more noisy rush of the dunbird, and listens to the pleasing call of the widgeon: -- these are the varieties which set the embers of his soul on fire.

1829 November, “Wild Fowl Shooting”, in Sporting Magazine, volume 23, page 162:

Well, we remained at Petala from the 16th to the 24th -- eight shooting days, and killed between us sixty-seven and a-half brace of woodcock, twenty- seven brace of teal, thirty-three brace of widgeon, fifteen brace of ducks, seven and a-half brace of geese, two brace of sea-pheasants, one and a-half brace of barganders and one hare; so far as we were concerned, (that is, my friend and I) we would have been well satisfied to remain for another eight days; but below stairs the rumblings of a coming storm, the premonitory symptoms of a mutiny, at length made themselves so distince, that it was absurd to attempt to feign ignorand any longer: there was nothing for it but to never ourselves like brave men for the coming struggle.

1865, Arthur Kavanagh, The Cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva, page 146:

And such egs not only Doves do bring, but house hens also, Partridges, Peahens, Geese, and Brants, or the female Barganders.

1937, University of Pennsylvania. Botanical Laboratory, Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory and the Morris Arboretum, page 12:


common pochard

common pochard (countable and uncountable, plural common pochards)

Aythya ferina
Aythya ferina#Translingual

A diving duck of temperate and cool Eurasia (Aythya ferina)

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torrent duck

The mountain lakes are fed by streams that are frozen in winter but change overnight into raging torrents – the turbulent habitat of the torrent duck.

2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 52:

Merganetta armata
Merganetta armata#Translingual

A species of duck, Merganetta armata, found near fast-flowing rivers in the Andes.


black-headed duck

black-headed duck (plural black-headed ducks)

Heteronetta atricapilla
Heteronetta atricapilla#Translingual

A South American duck of freshwater habitats, Heteronetta atricapilla, known for laying its eggs in the nests of other ducks.


tree duck

Any of the birds in the genus Dendrocygna of whistling ducks, which are in the family Anatidae with the ducks, geese and swans, but in their own subfamily.


loggerhead duck

loggerhead duck (plural loggerhead ducks)

Tachyeres brachypterus
Tachyeres brachypterus#Translingual

Tachyeres brachypterus, a shellfish-eating duck of the Falkland Islands; a poor diver, incapable of true flight.


black scoter

Melanitta americana
Melanitta americana#Translingual

Melanitta americana, an arctic sea bird in the family Anatidae


white-headed duck

white-headed duck (plural white-headed ducks)

Oxyura leucocephala
Oxyura leucocephala#Translingual

Oxyura leucocephala, an arctic sea bird in the family Anatidae


common scoter

Melanitta nigra
Melanitta nigra#Translingual

Melanitta nigra, an arctic sea bird in the family Anatidae


sea robin

red-breasted merganser
red-breasted merganser


burrow duck

Tadorna tadorna
Tadorna tadorna#Translingual

A sheldrake (Tadorna tadorna) or bergander.


robin dipper

(regional, obsolete) The bufflehead duck.


ducklet

The copulatory organ looks like a pinkish root tip and its presence denotes a drakelet. In the cloaca of a ducklet no such organ can be seen.

1932, The Harper Adams Utility Poultry Journal, volume 17, page 553:


ring-necked duck

ring-necked duck (plural ring-necked ducks)

Aythya collaris
Aythya collaris#Translingual

Aythya collaris, a diving duck from North America commonly found in freshwater ponds and lakes


Eurasian teal

Anas crecca, a common and widespread duck which breeds in temperate Palearctic and migrates south in winter.


American black duck

American black duck (plural American black ducks)

Anas rubripes
Anas rubripes#Translingual

Anas rubripes, a large dabbling duck in the family Anatidae.


duckess

Coordinate term: drake

But the thrust that got Eustace in the pin feathers was: “I know why you’re such a model drake,—it’s because your wife is the only duckess in the barnyard.” “Not at all!” he replied. “The principles for which I stand are absolute. They would be the same if there were a hundred duckesses besides Gertrude!”

1920, Lawton Mackall, “Beyond the Paling”, in Scrambled Eggs, Stewart & Kidd Company, page 37:

And here come Sophie and her four offsprings which we have been unable thus far to segregate into ducks and duckesses. Manchester, the biggest of the lot, makes a specialty of pecking at my shoelaces.

1938 September 17, “From the Editor’s Easy Chair”, in Welford Beaton, editor, Hollywood Spectator, thirteenth year, volume 13, number 17, Los Angeles, Calif., section “Mental Meanderings”, page six, column 2:

Harold does not like to shoot little ducks and duckesses himself, but he got some swell camera shots of some of his friends in action.

1953, The Fortnightly Review of the Chicago Dental Society, page 18, column 2:

Three duckesses had fluffy, little broods parading along behind, ready to claim their waterfront real estate as soon as the ice stopped being ice.

2012, Robert L. Payne, A Side Order of Truth, Xlibris, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 481:


lesser whistling teal

lesser whistling teal (plural lesser whistling teals)

lesser whistling duck
lesser whistling duck#English


lesser whistling duck

lesser whistling duck (plural lesser whistling ducks)

Dendrocygna javanica
Dendrocygna javanica#Translingual

Dendrocygna javanica, a whistling duck that breeds in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.


spotted whistling duck

spotted whistling duck (plural spotted whistling ducks)

Dendrocygna guttata
Dendrocygna guttata#Translingual

A species of whistling duck, Dendrocygna guttata (family Anatidae), of the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea, and northern Australia.


wandering whistling duck

wandering whistling duck (plural wandering whistling ducks)

Dendrocygna arcuata
Dendrocygna arcuata#Translingual

Dendrocygna arcuata, a species of whistling duck.


mud duck

Spatula clypeata
Spatula clypeata#Translingual

(zoology) The northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata).


perching duck

(colloquial) Any species of ducks distinguished by their readiness to perch high in trees.


Brazilian teal

Amazonetta brasiliensis
Amazonetta brasiliensis#Translingual


eider goose

And that will mean farewell to the edelweiss, adieu the eider goose.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 297:

Somateria mollissima
Somateria mollissima#Translingual

The common eider (Somateria mollissima).


crested duck

Lophonetta specularioides
Lophonetta specularioides#Translingual

A duck of species Lophonetta specularioides, of South America.


Hawaiian duck

Anas wyvilliana
Anas wyvilliana#Translingual

Anas wyvilliana, a bird endemic to Hawaii.


hooded merganser

hooded merganser (plural hooded mergansers)

While scoping out the flyways and byways of our city for nature news this week (within my family I refer to this rather solitary activity as bunny-hunting — they know what I mean) I came across a dozen or so hooded mergansers at Humber Bay Park East.

2014 December 4, Margaret Bream, “Wild in the City: hooded mergansers”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, O.N.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-30:

Lophodytes cucullatus
Lophodytes cucullatus#Translingual

A species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.


manky mallard

A mallard bred from wild mallards and domestic ducks, with variable and uneven plumage patterns.


yellow-billed teal

yellow-billed teal (plural yellow-billed teals)


speckled teal

Anas flavirostris
Anas flavirostris#Translingual

Anas flavirostris, a South American teal.


drakeling

Good night, darling; take that kiss to your respected mother, and tell her with my compliments that we can’t afford to make ducks and drakes of the romance of our little pet’s life: she will hatch those birds for herself in due time, and remain cluck-clucking, wisely, but sadly, like a perplexed old hen, when her ducklings and drakelings have unexpectedly taken the water.

1858, “Edith Clarel: A Story from Three Points of View”, in The Money Bag: Literature, Politics, Finance, volume I, number 4, London: Daniel F. Oakey, […], page 232:

Referring to Table 1 it will be seen that if a breeding duck produces 40 marketable progeny each year (and in practice this should be achieved) half of which are ducklings and the other half drakelings, and these birds realise 2s. per lb. live weight, then that breeding duck would return approximately £15 10s. over feeding costs for the 12 months.

1951, Supplement to the Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, volume 28, page 216:

Muscovy ducks with ducklings. This is the most popular breed for table purposes. They make weights of up to 5 lb. for ducklings at 13 to 14 weeks, and up to 9 lb. for drakelings at 16 weeks when correctly handled.

1961, Allan A[rthur] McArdle, Poultry Management and Production (Agricultural and Livestock Series), Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson, page 563:


white-winged scoter

white-winged scoter (plural white-winged scoters)

Melanitta deglandi
Melanitta deglandi#Translingual

Any of species Melanitta deglandi of ducks, that breed in Alaska and western Canada, wintering in coastal North America.