nigger duck

English

Noun

nigger duck (plural nigger ducks)

  1. (dated, offensive) Synonym of American black duck
    • 1940, Edna Hoffman Evans, Bill and the Bird Bander (page 95)
      […] nigger ducks spoil all the fishing." "You tell your father and the other fishermen that these birds are protected by federal and state laws," Professor Weston answered crisply.
    • 1945, MotorBoating (volume 75, number 3, page 90)
      One more tack between a small mangrove-tentacled islet and the nigger ducks and mile-or-more bird's lighting post, the black channel marker, and leaving the two pranksters fast on the bar I pointed the cat's bow up the bay on a quarter run toward City Pier.
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