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Duckling vs Ducking - What's the difference?

duckling | ducking |

As nouns the difference between duckling and ducking

is that duckling is a young duck while ducking is the action of the verb to duck.

As a verb ducking is

present participle of lang=en.

duckling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A young duck.

    • Derived terms

    * ugly duckling

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    ducking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to duck .
  • (countable) An instance of ducking (a person in water, etc).
    • They gave him a ducking in the river as a punishment.

    Derived terms

    * ducking stool