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Donald Duck

1. 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.

2. The asteroid 12410.

• Donald Ducking it

• → Arabic: دُونَالْد دَاك (dūnāld dāk)
• → Armenian: Դոնալդ Դաք (Donald Dakʻ)
• → Azerbaijani: Donald Dak
• → Bulgarian: Доналд Дък (Donald Dǎk)
• → Dutch: Donald Duck
• → French: Donald Duck
• → Georgian: დონალდ დაკი (donald daḳi)
• → German: Donald Duck
• → Greek: Ντόναλντ Ντακ (Ntónalnt Ntak)
• → Gujarati: ડોનાલ્ડ ડક (ḍonālḍ ḍak)
• → Hebrew: דוֹנָלְד דָאק (Dónald Dak)
• → Hindi: डोनाल्ड डक (ḍonālḍ ḍak)
• → Japanese: ドナルドダック (donarudo dakku)
• → Kannada: ಡೊನಾಲ್ಡ್ ಡಕ್ (ḍonālḍ ḍak)
• → Korean: 도널드 덕 (doneoldeu deok)
• → Latvian: Donalds Daks
• → Malayalam: ഡൊണാൾഡ് ഡക്ക് (ḍoṇāḷḍŭ ḍakkŭ)
• → Marathi: डोनाल्ड डक (ḍonālḍa ḍak)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: Donald Duck
• → Portuguese: Pato Donald (calque)
• → Romanian: Donald Duck
• → Russian: Дональд Дак (Donalʹd Dak)
• → Spanish: Pato Donald (calque)
• → Thai: โดนัลด์ ดั๊ก (doo-nalt dák)
• → Ukrainian: Дональд Дак (Donalʹd Dak)

Donald Duck (plural Donald Ducks)

1. (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.

• Donald Ducked

• Uncle Scrooge

• Donald Duck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

Donald Duck

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From English Donald Duck, notably being untranslated unlike this character in other Scandinavian languages.

• IPA^(key): /ˈduːnɑl.dʉk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ʉk
• Hyphenation: Do‧nald‧Duck
• Homophone: DD

Donald Duck

1. (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 [they] 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 [Duck] our offspring are indoctrinated, it is said

2. (astronomy) The asteroid 12410 Donald Duck

• (Disney characters): Mikke Mus, Skrue McDuck, Dolly Duck

• Donaldisme (“Donaldism”)
• donaldkul (“big lump (after a hit)”)

• “Donald Duck” in Store norske leksikon