Mango vs Duck - What's the difference?
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(botany) A tropical Asian fruit tree, .
The fruit of the mango tree.
* 1738 , October–November, (Hans Sloan), Philosophical Transactions , volume 40, number 450, “VI. his Answer to the Marquis de Caumont's Letter, concerning this Stone”, translated from the Latin by (Thomas Stack), (Royal Society) (1741),
A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been .
* 2004 , Elizabeth E. Lea, William Woys Weaver, A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea , page 335
A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
* 1879 , Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, Agriculture of Pennsylvania , Page 222
* 1896 , Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report , Page 154
* {{quote-news, 1943, August 9, Mary Adgate, Stuffed Mangoes, The Lima News, city=Lima, Ohio, page=5
, passage=Cut tops from mangoes ; remove seeds.}}
* 2000 , Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today , page 41
A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo .
Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax .
(colour) A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.
(uncommon) To stuff and pickle (a fruit).
* 1870 , Hannah Mary Peterson, The Young Wife's Cook Book , page 444:
* 1989 , William Woys Weaver, America eats: forms of edible folk art :
* 2008 , Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld, Pickles To Relish (ISBN 1589804899), page 66:
To lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
* Fielding
To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
* Dryden
To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
To bow.
* Shakespeare
To evade doing something.
To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
* 2007 , Alexander U. Case, Sound FX: unlocking the creative potential of recording studio effects (page 183)
An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
Specifically'', an adult female duck; ''contrasted with'' drake ''and with duckling.
(uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
(cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
(slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.
A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
* 2007 , Cynthia Blair, "It Happened on Long Island: 1988—Suffolk County Adopts the Big Duck," , 21 Feb.:
A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
(US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
* 1912 , , "The Woman At The Store", from Selected Short Stories :
Trousers made of such material.
*1918 , (Rebecca West), The Return of the Soldier , Virago 2014, p. 56:
*:And they would go up and find old Allington, in white ducks , standing in the fringe of long grasses and cow-parsley on the other edge of the island […].
A term of endearment; pet; darling.
Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
As a noun mango
is mango.As a proper noun duck is
.mango
English
(wikipedia mango) (Mangifera indica) (Cucumis melo) (Anthracothorax)Noun
(en-noun)page 376:
- And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango .
- In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.
- Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold.
- Best mango peppers
citation
- Finally, although both the South and North Midlands are not known for their tropical climate, that's where mangoes grow. These aren't the tropical fruit, though, but what are elsewhere called green peppers.
Verb
(es)- Although any melon may be used before it is quite ripe, yet there is a particular sort for this purpose, which the gardeners know, and should be mangoed soon after they are gathered.
- In an effort to reproduce the pickle, English cooks took to "mangoing " all sorts of substitutes, from cucumbers to unripe peaches. Americans, however, preferred baby musk melons, or, in areas where they did not grow well, bell peppers.
- For this cookbook, I made mangoed peppers that were not stuffed with cabbage, but stuffed with green and red tomatoes and onions.
References
* (bell peppers)The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia
Anagrams
* ----duck
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub.
- In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day.
- (Jonathan Swift)
- The learned pate / Ducks to the golden fool.
- The music is ducked under the voice.
Synonyms
* (to lower the head) duck down * (to lower into the water) dip, dunk * (to lower in order to prevent it from being struck by something) dipDerived terms
* duck and cover * duck outEtymology 2
From (etyl) ducke, dukke, doke, dokke, douke, duke, from (etyl) duce, .Noun
- A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
- The Big Duck has influenced the world of architecture; any building that is shaped like its product is called a ‘duck ’.
Hyponyms
* (bird) Anas platyrhynchos (domesticus), Mallard-derived domestic breeds, including Pekin, Rouen, Campbell, Call, Runner; Cairina moschata, Muscovy duckDerived terms
* break one’s duck, break the duck * Burdekin duck * dabbling duck * decoy duck * diving duck * duck-arsed * duckbill * duck-billed * duckboard * duck-footed * duckling * duckness * ducks and drakes * ducks on the pond * hunt where the ducks are * lame duck * Lord love a duck * odd duck * Peking duck * rubber duck * * shelduck * sitting duck * take to something like a duck to waterSee also
* anatine * drake * goose * quack * swan * waterfowlReferences
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Etymology 3
From (etyl) doek, from (etyl) doeck, .Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(en noun)- He was dressed in a Jaeger vest—a pair of blue duck trousers, fastened round the waist with a plaited leather belt.
Etymology 4
(central England). From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck (William Shakespeare - The Life of King Henry the Fifth, Act 2, Scene 3).
- Ay up duck , ow'a'tha?
