duckling

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 dŭkʹlĭng

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A young duck.
  2. A young duck.; A young female duck.
    — 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.

词形变化

ducklings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
lucky duckling ugly duckling
相关词
duck gosling swanling

词源

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