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Definition of Duckling
1. Noun. Flesh of a young domestic duck.
2. Noun. Young duck.
Definition of Duckling
1. n. A young or little duck.
Definition of Duckling
1. Noun. A young duck. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Duckling
1. a young duck [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duckling
Literary usage of Duckling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Fourth Reader by Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks (1910)
"Ill po lite'ly jaws sup port' hinge The ugly duckling ran under the hedge, and
the little ... That is because I am ugly," said the duckling to himself. ..."
2. Children's Classics in Dramatic Form. by Augusta Stevenson (1908)
"THE UGLY duckling SCENE I TIME : one summer morning. ... THIRD duckling. RED ROOSTER.
[MADAM DUCK enters the farmyard with her new brood of ducklingS. ..."
3. Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher by Charles Madison Curry (1921)
"198 "The Ugly duckling" has always been regarded as one of Andersen's most
exquisite stories. No one can fail to notice the parallel that suggests itself ..."
4. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"thought the duckling; and he shut his eyes, but flew on farther; ... they asked;
and the duckling turned about to each, and bowed as well as he could. ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"FOLK-LORE AND FABLE ANDERSEN'S TALES THE UGLY duckling IT WAS so glorious out in
the country; it was summer; the corn-fields were yellow, the oats were ..."
6. The Elson Readers by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck (1920)
"Arrange in alphabetical order: THE UGLY duckling* Questions for Testing Silent
... Tell why the duckling was not liked in the farm-yard or in the hut. 5. ..."
7. Hans Andersen's Stories by Hans Christian Andersen (1891)
"The poor little duckling certainly had not a good time. ... They mounted so high,
so high ! and the ugly duckling had such a strange feeling as he saw them ..."
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