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I verb1) (to push briefly under water: They splashed about, ducking each other in the pool.) potopiti (se)2) (to lower the head suddenly as if to avoid a blow: He ducked as the ball came at him.) skloniti se, skriti seII plurals - ducks, duck; noun1) (a kind of wild or domesticated water-bird with short legs and a broad flat beak.) raca2) (a female duck. See also drake.) raca3) (in cricket, a score of nil by a batsman: He was out for a duck.) ničla (pri kriketu)•- duckling* * *I [dʌk]nounzoology raca; amfibijsko vozilo; colloquially srček, ljubček; očarljiva oseba; American military našiv; bankrotnik, dolžnik; invalid; colloquially nič, ničla (kriket)a lame duck — dolžnik; invalidlike a duck in a thunderstorm — potrt, otožen; zgubljento play ( —ali make) ducks and drakes — metati žabice (na vodni gladini); zapravljatilike water off a duck's back — brez učinka, kot bob ob stenocolloquially a duck of a — očarljiv(to take to s.th.) like a duck to water — (lotiti se česa) z veseljem, brez obotavljanjaduck's egg sport nič, nobena točka (kriket)II [dʌk]intransitive verb & transitive verbpočeniti, počepati; hitro glavo skloniti, ukloniti se; potapljati, potopiti (se); race loviticolloquially prikloniti se; slang to duck out — popihati joIII [dʌk]nounnagla sklonitev, počep, potopitevIV [dʌk]nounvrsta surovega platna; plural hlače iz takega blagaV [dʌk]nouncolloquially izkrcevalni čoln za amfibije -
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1) (unpleasant to look at: She is rather an ugly young woman.) grd2) (unpleasant, nasty or dangerous: ugly black clouds; The crowd was in an ugly mood.) neprijeten•- ugliness* * *I [ʌgli]adjectivegrd, nelep; odvraten, ostuden, ogaben; gnusen; umazan; neprijeten; American colloquially prepirljiv, hudoben, zlohoten; nevaren, preteč (oblak); kritičenan ugly customer — zoprn, neprijeten, nevaren človekan ugly job — težavna, zoprna, neprijetna zadeva (delo)an ugly wound — grda, nevarna ranato look ugly — biti grde, neprijetne zunanjosti (oseba); slabo, neugodno se obrniti (položaj)things have an ugly look — stvari se grdo, neprijetno obračajoII [ʌgli]noungrda oseba; grda žival; history senčnik, pajčolan na ženskih klobukih (v sredini 19. stoletja)
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duckling — mid 15c., dookelynge, from DUCK (Cf. duck) (n.) + LING (Cf. ling). The ugly duckling is from Hans Christian Andersen s tale (1843 in Danish, by 1846 in English) … Etymology dictionary
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duckling — See: UGLY DUCKLING … Dictionary of American idioms
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