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  • noun A pond that is populated by ducks.

Etymologies

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duck +‎ pond

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Examples

  • For instance, the first draft of the children's classic Mr Tickle is rumoured to climax with the hitherto cheery long-armed orange blobman horrifically molesting a cow from the other side of a duckpond, just because he can.

    Jonathan Franzen's Freedom has been pulped. MORE HEADLINE TO GO HERE Charlie Brooker 2010

  • I did like his explanations for everyday work slang like the “duckpond” in “Tight-Assed River.”

    Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee ricklibrarian 2006

  • Only Roger could have been behind the mishap on the duckpond, and she knew she wanted no more such “mishaps” happening to her.

    In the Hand of the Goddess Camora Pierce 1984

  • Only Roger could have been behind the mishap on the duckpond, and she knew she wanted no more such “mishaps” happening to her.

    In the Hand of the Goddess Camora Pierce 1984

  • Only Roger could have been behind the mishap on the duckpond, and she knew she wanted no more such “mishaps” happening to her.

    In the Hand of the Goddess Camora Pierce 1984

  • Only Roger could have been behind the mishap on the duckpond, and she knew she wanted no more such “mishaps” happening to her.

    In the Hand of the Goddess Camora Pierce 1984

  • Only Roger could have been behind the mishap on the duckpond, and she knew she wanted no more such “mishaps” happening to her.

    In the Hand of the Goddess Camora Pierce 1984

  • Soon they were in a big farmyard, with hens pecking around them, and ducks swimming on a round duckpond.

    Five Go To Billycock Hill Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1957

  • As if to reward us for this dashing affair, a gust of wind blew aside the fog; the sun gleamed again; and Williamstadt, the French camp, the covering force formed in columns and waiting for us, and the whole country to the horizon, green as a duckpond, and altogether as smooth, burst on our view.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

  • Then Joscelyn drew herself up to full height, and pointing with her arm straight across the duckpond she cried:

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

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