ducklingnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈdʌk.lɪŋ/us/ˈdʌk.lɪŋ/a young duck, or its flesh when used as food
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal young
- baby
- bugger
- calf
- calves
- chick
- colt
- cub
- foal
- frogspawn
- fry
- gosling
- heifer
- joey
- litter
- owlet
- peachick
- piglet
- pup
- puppy
- spawn
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Ducks, geese & game birds
Examples from literature
- Lily waited four weeks before the ducklings appeared.
- The ducklings are hatched from the first of April up to about the first of August.
- The next day, the cat saw the duckling and began to growl.
- We have a new brood of seventeen ducklings just hatched this afternoon.
- Well, the three ducklings swam on, thinking how nice it was on the water, with the warm sun on their backs, when they suddenly came to the end of the pond.