ducking

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdʌkɪŋ/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ

Verb

ducking

  1. present participle of duck

Noun

ducking (countable and uncountable, plural duckings)

  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.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Suggested by predictive text or autocorrect on some devices.[1][2]

Adjective

ducking (not comparable)

  1. (slang, humorous) Euphemistic form of fucking.
    • 2015, El Castor, “Re: China sending fighter jets to Syria to assist Russia”, in soc.retirement, Usenet:
      You are the ducking idiot here.

References
  1. Kif Leswing , quoting Ken Kocienda (September 16, 2018), “Why the iPhone keyboard inserts 'ducking' into your texts, according to the person who designed it”, in Business Insider‎, archived from the original on 2021-01-29: “We decided to err on the side of not inserting obscenities into the text that might be going to your grandma”
  2. Todd Haselton (April 3, 2018), “How to fix ‘ducking’ and other iPhone autocorrect problems”, in CNBC‎, archived from the original on 2021-01-29
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