dabbling duck

1. 1.

   any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling

   Synonymsdabbler

   Antonymsdiving duck

   Broaderduck

Questions about dabbling duck

What does dabbling duck mean?

dabbling duck means "any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling".

What is another word for dabbling duck?

Close synonyms include dabbler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of dabbling duck?

The recorded antonyms are diving duck.

Is dabbling duck a common word?

dabbling duck is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.