duckhood

English

Etymology

duck +‎ -hood

Noun

duckhood (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being a duck.
   • 1988, Donald T. Campbell, E. Samuel Overman, Methodology and Epistemology for Social Sciences: Selected Papers:

     Thus the plucked duck ready for roasting, lacking feathers, ability to fly, webbed feet, long flat bill, fertility in breeding with other ducks, and any other of the usually used symptoms of duckhood, may be still much closer to ducks in the n-dimensional attribute space than to any other natural kind.

Synonyms

• duckness