What does ducking mean?
Ducking means present participle and gerund of duck.
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/ˈdʌkɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of duck.
They gave him a ducking in the river as a punishment.
You are the ducking idiot here.
“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.
Parliament said she hopes ducking becomes a regular part of Jeep culture, similar to the notorious "Jeep wave" that Wrangler owners are known to do on the road to say "hi" to one another.
She's gone out ducking with friends and family on shopping trips, in hospital parking lots and at Bishop International Airport in Flint, handing out more than 100 of the quackers.
Use ducking when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ducking means present participle and gerund of duck.
Common synonyms include immersion, dousing.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They gave him a ducking in the river as a punishment.
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