Duckmeat

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The flesh of a duck. uncountable

    "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?"

  2. 2
    Synonym of duckweed. archaic, uncountable

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duckduckfleshduckweed

Example

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"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?"

Etymology

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

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