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rubber-ducked en · ADJ · etymology 1

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rubber ducked.
    • 'Thanks, boss, but I won't if you don't mind. I'm rubber-ducked. So I'm bound for an early night, Saturday or not!' 1994, Quintin Jardine, chapter 14, in Skinner's Festival, Headline Publishing:
    • If the world decides to move out of the dollar and into gold then we are, not to put too fine a point on it, totally rubber-ducked. See Seb, I'm definitely getting the hand of cockney! 2017, Brian Terry, Gold ₂ Dust, Matador, page 145:

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more rubber-ducked Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most rubber-ducked Degree=Sup lexicographic

rubber-ducked en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of rubber-duck
    form of rubber-duck

Forms

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rubber ducked alternative lexicographic