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duckmeat

noun

Etymology

From duck + meat. * (duckweed): Because it is eaten by ducks.

  1. derived from *meh₂d-✻ — “to drip, ooze; grease, fat”
  2. inherited from *matiz✻ — “food”
  3. inherited from *mati✻
  4. inherited from mete
  5. inherited from mete
  6. compounded as duckmeat — “duck + meat”

Definitions

  1. The flesh of a duck.

    • ‘It got flies in it?’ Werth picks up the neat circular slice of duckmeat, waves it around, flap flap flap. / ‘Currants. Dried blackcurrants.’

  2. Synonym of duckweed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for duckmeat. 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