- ducky
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adjective
(duckier; -est)
Date: 1897
1. darling, cute <a ducky little tearoom> 2. satisfactory, fine <everything is just ducky>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
ducky
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Ducky — Nash beim San Diego Comic Con 1982 Clarence „Ducky“ Nash (* 7. Dezember 1904 in Watonga, Oklahoma; † 20. Februar 1985 in Los Angeles) war ein US amerikanischer Stimmkünstler, der durch seine Stimme für Donald Duck berühmt wurde und nach dem in… … Deutsch Wikipedia
ducky — 1. adjective Great; going well; proceeding in an eminently agreeable fashion. Farnesworth smiled contentedly as he read the stock ticker; all was ducky on Wall Street. Syn: fine, peachy, swell 2. noun a) … Wiktionary
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