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ducking

noun

  1. the act of surreptitiously leaving a rubber duck on someone’s parked Jeep as an act of kindness
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noun

  1. process by which an accused person is put in water to see if they float; used as a test for witchcraft
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈdʌkɪŋ/

adj

Etymology: Suggested by predictive text or autocorrect on some devices.

  1. Euphemistic form of fucking.

    You are the ducking idiot here.

    “In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn it, too,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president for software engineering.

noun

Etymology: Nominalization of duck (verb), a denominal verb of duck (noun), from ellipsis of rubber duck.

  1. The act of surreptitiously leaving a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).

    Parliament said she hopes ducking becomes a regular part of Jeep culture, similar to the notorious "Jeep wave" that Wrangler owners are known to do on the road to say "hi" to one another.

    She's gone out ducking with friends and family on shopping trips, in hospital parking lots and at Bishop International Airport in Flint, handing out more than 100 of the quackers.

verb

Etymology: By surface analysis, duck + -ing.

  1. present participle and gerund of duck