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Dunking vs Ducking - What's the difference?

dunking | ducking |

As verbs the difference between dunking and ducking

is that dunking is present participle of lang=en while ducking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between dunking and ducking

is that dunking is the act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool while ducking is the action of the verb to duck.

dunking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool.
  • (basketball) Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.
  • 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