duckmeat

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duckmeat

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From duck + meat.

* (duckweed): Because it is eaten by ducks.

noun

  1. uncountable The flesh of a duck. But what about all those plucked bodies? Why, with the duvet boom, has the price of duckmeat not fallen to rock bottom, dipped below scrag and coley? Why do the kids not queue at chippies for ten pennorth of duck and a bag of beaks for the cat?

    Similar: duck, duckflesh

  2. archaic, uncountable Synonym of duckweed.

    Similar: duckweed

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@misc{duckmeat_2026,
  title = {duckmeat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/duckmeat},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}