Donald Duck

English

Etymology

Donald + duck

Proper noun

Donald Duck

  1. One of the Disney cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic white-feathered duck who usually wears a sailor suit and is known for his voice especially in tantrums.
    • 1941, “Screwy Hall Of Fame Presents A Quack”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
      Single-handed [sic] he swung the staid Western Union from its ordinary singing-telegram policy to the point where local patrons can request that their greeting be sung in Donald Duck voice.
    • 1945, Ernie Pyle; David Nichols (editor), Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches, Touchstone Books, published 1987, page 399:
      And then the most Donald Duck-like screaming and jabbering you ever heard.
    • 1992 April, Gene Bylinsky, “A U.S. Comeback in Electronics”, in Fortune, volume 125, number 8, page 77:
      DSP can also eliminate ghost images from TV screens and banish those irritating Donald Duck squeaks and quacks from speeded-up playback of tape-recorded voice messages.
    • 1992 May, Sturat F. Brown, “Earthwinds Waits on the Weather”, in Popular Science, volume 240, number 5, page 80:
      Perched securely in the rafters and using a walkie-talkie to communicate with colleagues on the airdock's floor, Lachenmeier was amused to find his voice had risen into the Donald Duck register due to the bubble of escaping helium spreading along the ceiling.
  2. The asteroid 12410.

Descendants
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: Donald Duck

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Noun

Donald Duck (plural Donald Ducks)

  1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A fuck.

Derived terms

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål
A Donald Duck statue.

Etymology

From English Donald Duck, notably being untranslated unlike this character in other Scandinavian languages.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈduːnɑl.dʉk/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʉk
  • Hyphenation: Do‧nald‧Duck
  • Homophone: DD

Proper noun

Donald Duck

  1. (cartoon) Donald Duck (One of the Disney cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic white-feathered duck who usually wears a sailor suit and is known for his voice especially in tantrums.)
    • 2011 January 24, Bergens Tidende, page 2/3:
      Donald Duck er like oppbyggelig som han er bukseløs
      Donald Duck is as edifying as he is pantsless
    • 1988, Knut Faldbakken, Bad boy, page 185:
      et av barndommens Donald Duck-blad hvor speiderbevegelsen stadig ble ironisert med
      one of the childhood Donald Duck magazines where the scout movement was constantly ironized
    • 1958, Eva Ramm, Med støv på hjernen, page 13:
      på barneværelset har vi festlige Donald Duck-tapeter
      in the nursery we have festive Donald Duck wallpapers
    • 1996, Tove Nilsen, Skyskrapersommer:
      aftensmaten til far ser ut som et av de smørbrødene Donald Duck lager når han skal flotte seg
      Dad's dinner looks like one of the sandwiches Donald Duck makes when he's going great
    • 1997, Jo Nesbø, Flaggermusmannen:
      med ujevne mellomrom inhalerer [de] helium og får sånne Donald duck-stemmer
      at irregular intervals [they] inhale helium and get such Donald duck voices
    • 1977, Ebba Haslund, Født til klovn, page 149:
      gjennom Donald [Duck] blir vårt avkom indoktrinert, sies det
      through Donald [Duck] our offspring are indoctrinated, it is said
  2. (astronomy) The asteroid 12410 Donald Duck
    Karakteren Donald Duck ble skapt i 1934 hos Walt Disney Productions.
    The character Donald Duck was created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions.

Hyponyms
  • (Disney characters): Mikke Mus, Skrue McDuck, Dolly Duck

Derived terms
  • Donaldisme (“Donaldism”)
  • donaldkul (“big lump (after a hit)”)

References
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