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Word: duckings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Sorry; just like a duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Naturally, if you are not potbellied, the epithet rolls off you like water from a duck's back. But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!" That is your modus operandi! How do you like it applied to yourself? I hope it raises your blood pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

When they returned from breakfast the duck; which they had left paddling around in the bath tub, had disappeared as mysteriously as it came. Leboeuf and Rittman hinted darkly at a plot, and said that investigation had revealed that "a certain party" had purchased one live duck for 96 cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NONDESCRIPT DUCK APPEARS, DISAPPEARS IN ADAMS SUITE | 10/25/1938 | See Source »

...nondescript duck, with no outstanding personality whatsoever. He just made quiet little noises," Leboeuf reminisced sadly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NONDESCRIPT DUCK APPEARS, DISAPPEARS IN ADAMS SUITE | 10/25/1938 | See Source »

William C. Rittman '39 and L.E. Lebocuf '39 awoke yesterday morning to find a plump duck complacently waddling about their living room in Adams House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NONDESCRIPT DUCK APPEARS, DISAPPEARS IN ADAMS SUITE | 10/25/1938 | See Source »

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