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# ducky

«ducky» in Mova's school dictionary: **a little duck, a word children use** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ducky, duckies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A ducky is a little duck, a word children use. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ducky/#m1)

2) (casual) A grown-up may call a dear child «ducky» as a fond name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ducky/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, the duck is a silly character in a rhyme, and «ducky» is a pet name for a small duck

### examples

- Ducky-daddles waddled to the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ducky/#x1)
- The old woman called the child her little ducky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ducky/#x2)
- The ducky swam in a circle round the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ducky/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ducky» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ducky/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.