duck (n.)
- also-ran
- angel
- avert
- avoidance
- babe
- baby
- baptism
- bastard
- being
- bend
- biddy
- bird
- blink
- bob
- body
- booby
- bow
- broiler
- brooder
- bugger
- burial
- bury
- buttercup
- canard
- capon
- case
- cat
- chap
- character
- cherub
- chick
- chicken
- circumvention
- cock
- cockerel
- creature
- crouch
- curtsy
- customer
- darling
- dear
- deary
- deluge
- dip
- dipping
- dive
- dodge
- doll
- double
- dousing
- drake
- ducking
- duckling
- dunk
- earthling
- elude
- elusion
- elusiveness
- equivocation
- escape
- evasion
- evasiveness
- fade
- fallback
- feller
- fellow
- fence
- flinch
- float
- flood
- forbearance
- forestalling
- fowl
- fryer
- gander
- genuflection
- gobbler
- goldbrick
- goose
- gosling
- groundling
- grouse
- guy
- hand
- head
- hedge
- hen
- homo
- hon
- honey
- human
- immersion
- individual
- inundation
- jasper
- jib
- joker
- kneel
- kneeling
- kowtow
- lad
- lamb
- lambkin
- life
- loser
- love
- lover
- man
- mortal
- neutrality
- nod
- nonintervention
- nose
- obeisance
- oddball
- oddity
- one
- original
- parry
- partridge
- party
- person
- personage
- personality
- pet
- pheasant
- pigeon
- plunge
- poulet
- poultry
- prevention
- prostration
- pullback
- pullet
- pullout
- quail
- quiz
- rain
- recoil
- retreat
- reverence
- roaster
- rooster
- salaam
- shift
- shrink
- shun
- shunning
- shy
- sidestep
- single
- sink
- sinking
- slack
- slip
- sluice
- soldier
- somebody
- someone
- soul
- souse
- sousing
- spook
- sport
- squab
- squat
- stooge
- stoop
- stud
- submergence
- submersion
- sugar
- supination
- swamp
- sweet
- sweetheart
- sweetie
- swerve
- tellurian
- tom
- turkey
- underdog
- victim
- volaille
- waffle
- ward
- weasel
- welsh
- wince
- worldling
- zigzag
- zombie
duck (v.)
- avert
- avoid
- baby
- baptize
- being
- bend
- bilk
- bird
- blench
- blink
- bob
- body
- bow
- bugger
- bury
- case
- cat
- chap
- character
- cock
- cringe
- crouch
- curtsy
- dear
- deluge
- dip
- dive
- dodge
- double
- douse
- drown
- dunk
- elude
- engulf
- equivocate
- escape
- eschew
- evade
- fade
- fence
- flinch
- float
- flood
- fowl
- genuflect
- goldbrick
- goose
- grouse
- guy
- hand
- head
- hedge
- hen
- hon
- honey
- immerse
- inundate
- jib
- kneel
- kowtow
- lamb
- life
- love
- malinger
- man
- merge
- nod
- nose
- one
- overwhelm
- palter
- parry
- party
- pet
- plunge
- prevaricate
- prevent
- pussyfoot
- quail
- quiz
- rain
- recoil
- retract
- retreat
- reverence
- salaam
- shift
- shirk
- shrink
- shun
- shy
- sidestep
- single
- sink
- skulk
- slack
- slip
- sluice
- soldier
- souse
- spook
- sport
- squat
- stooge
- stoop
- stud
- submerge
- submerse
- sugar
- swamp
- swerve
- tergiversate
- tom
- turkey
- waffle
- ward
- welsh
- whelm
- wince
- withdraw
- zigzag
But as some muskets so contrive it
As oft to miss the mark they drive at,
And though well aimed at duck or plover,
Bear wide, and kick their owners over.
