Duck is a good for nothing bird. So useless persons marked with duck.
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A "duck" is a score of zero (0), from the comparison with an oval duck's egg.In other uses, the slang term for zero is "a goose egg."
In his test debut: Gautam Ghambhir and Irfan Pathan got ducks. In his ODI debut: Sourav Ganguly got a duck. In his T20I debut: Tyron Henderson from South Africa scored a duck. In his T20I and ODI debuts, Dhoni scored duck.
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When a duck is a baby, it is called a duckling.
The Oregon duck does 1 push up for every point Oregon has scored in the game. If Oregon has scored 10 points in the game the Duck does 10 push ups, 20 points 20 push ups ...
A female duck is called a duck or a hen as a male is called a drake
An immature female duck is called a duckling. Once the female duck matures it is called a hen or duck.
There is no name for a castrated male duck. An intact male duck is called a drake while a female duck is called a duck.
A female duck is called a duck, or, as a female bird, a hen.
I am pretty sure that a mother duck is just called a mother duck.