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English
Etymology
Donald + duck
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Donald Duck
- One of the Disney cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic white-feathered duck who usually wears a sailor suit and is known for his voice especially in tantrums.
1941 March 6, “Screwy Hall Of Fame Presents A Quack”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:Single-handed [sic] he swung the staid Western Union from its ordinary singing-telegram policy to the point where local patrons can request that their greeting be sung in Donald Duck voice.
1945, Ernie Pyle, edited by David Nichols, Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches, Touchstone Books, published 1987, page 399:And then the most Donald Duck-like screaming and jabbering you ever heard.
1992 April, Gene Bylinsky, “A U.S. Comeback in Electronics”, in Fortune, volume 125, number 8, page 77:DSP can also eliminate ghost images from TV screens and banish those irritating Donald Duck squeaks and quacks from speeded-up playback of tape-recorded voice messages.
1992 May, Sturat F. Brown, “Earthwinds Waits on the Weather”, in Popular Science, volume 240, number 5, page 80:Perched securely in the rafters and using a walkie-talkie to communicate with colleagues on the airdock's floor, Lachenmeier was amused to find his voice had risen into the Donald Duck register due to the bubble of escaping helium spreading along the ceiling.
- The asteroid 12410.
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Noun
Donald Duck (plural Donald Ducks)
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A fuck.
2010, Eric Morecambe, Mr Lonely, page 16:Look, I don't give a Donald Duck how you do it. Do it.
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English Donald Duck, notably being untranslated unlike this character in other Scandinavian languages.
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Donald Duck
- (cartoon) Donald Duck (One of the Disney cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic white-feathered duck who usually wears a sailor suit and is known for his voice especially in tantrums.)
Karakteren Donald Duck ble skapt i 1934 hos Walt Disney Productions.- The character Donald Duck was created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions.
2011 January 24, Bergens Tidende, page 2/3:Donald Duck er like oppbyggelig som han er bukseløs- Donald Duck is as edifying as he is pantsless
1988, Knut Faldbakken, Bad boy, page 185:et av barndommens Donald Duck-blad hvor speiderbevegelsen stadig ble ironisert med- one of the childhood Donald Duck magazines where the scout movement was constantly ironized
1958, Eva Ramm, Med støv på hjernen, page 13:på barneværelset har vi festlige Donald Duck-tapeter- in the nursery we have festive Donald Duck wallpapers
1996, Tove Nilsen, Skyskrapersommer:aftensmaten til far ser ut som et av de smørbrødene Donald Duck lager når han skal flotte seg- Dad's dinner looks like one of the sandwiches Donald Duck makes when he's going great
1997, Jo Nesbø, Flaggermusmannen:med ujevne mellomrom inhalerer [de] helium og får sånne Donald duck-stemmer- at irregular intervals inhale helium and get such Donald duck voices
1977, Ebba Haslund, Født til klovn, page 149:gjennom Donald [Duck] blir vårt avkom indoktrinert, sies det- through Donald our offspring are indoctrinated, it is said
- (astronomy) The asteroid 12410 Donald Duck
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