ducking

Etymology 1

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of duck

noun

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

Etymology 2

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adj

  1. (slang, humorous) Euphemistic form of fucking.
    You are the ducking idiot here. 2015, El Castor, “Re: China sending fighter jets to Syria to assist Russia”, in soc.retirement (Usenet)
    “In those moments where you just want to type a ducking word, well, the keyboard will learn it, too,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president for software engineering. 2023-06-07, Callie Holtermann, quoting Craig Federighi, “Apple Knows You Didn’t Mean to Type ‘Ducking’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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