Contextualizebeta

cold duck

noun

Etymology

Calque of German kalte Ente, from kalten Ende (“cold end”). Attested in English from the 1960s, see quotations below.

  1. derived from from the 1960s
  2. derived from kalte Ente

Definitions

  1. A sparkling red wine, often made by blending champagne with red wine, sometimes with…

    A sparkling red wine, often made by blending champagne with red wine, sometimes with additional flavorings added.

    • I would like to give Cold Duck a special mention because it was discovered by me personally—along with some two million Detroiters who at that time were the only Americans who’d ever heard of or enjoyed it.
    • Many young or new to the industry at last week’s party may have wondered what it was all about — the Beatles songs, the bright-eyed dancers, the re-introduction of a sparkling red wine called Cold Duck.
    • “My family drank cold duck every Thanksgiving and, being a kid, I loved it. It was so sweet, so cheap, the kind of thing a kid could love,” she said.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of cold duck.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cold duck. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA