ducking

English

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

Verb

ducking

  1. present participle and gerund of duck

Noun

ducking (countable and uncountable, plural duckings)

  1. An instance of ducking down, e.g. to hide.
  2. 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.
    • 2023 June 7, Callie Holtermann, quoting Craig Federighi, “Apple Knows You Didn’t Mean to Type ‘Ducking’”, in The New York Times‎, →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
  1. 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, 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”
  2. Todd Haselton (2018 April 3) “How to fix ‘ducking’ and other iPhone autocorrect problems”, in CNBC‎, archived from the original on January 29, 2021
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