ducking
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
ducking
- present participle and gerund of duck
Noun edit
ducking (countable and uncountable, plural duckings)
- An instance of ducking down, e.g. to hide.
- An instance of ducking (a person in water, etc).
- They gave him a ducking in the river as a punishment.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Suggested by predictive text or autocorrect on some devices.[1][2]
Adjective edit
ducking (not comparable)
- (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.
- 2023 June 7, Callie Holtermann, quoting Craig Federighi, “Apple Knows You Didn’t Mean to Type ‘Ducking’”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
- “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.
References edit
- ^ Kif Leswing quoting Ken Kocienda (2018 September 16) “Why the iPhone keyboard inserts 'ducking' into your texts, according to the person who designed it”, in Business Insider[1], archived from the original on January 29, 2021: “We decided to err on the side of not inserting obscenities into the text that might be going to your grandma”
- ^ Todd Haselton (2018 April 3) “How to fix ‘ducking’ and other iPhone autocorrect problems”, in CNBC[2], archived from the original on January 29, 2021