coy-duckn.
1. A duck trained to entice wildfowl in a decoy; = decoy-duck n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > decoy bird > decoy-duck
coy-duck1602
coy1629
coy-bird1639
decoy-duck1651
call duck1656
1602 J. Boys Wks. 389 The best trick ye fouler hath is to bring game to his snare by a stale or quoy duck.
a1625 J. Boys Wks. (1630) 389 To bring game to his snare by a stale or quoy duck.
1638 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 5) ii. ii. iv. 265 Fowling..with..lime, nets, glades..coy-ducks.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxxvii. 319 Coyduckes are beaten and whipped to what they are taught, like setting doggs.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Coy-duck, a duck trained to entice others into the tunnel in a decoy.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs.
2. transferred. A person who entices others, one who leads the way.
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the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > one who or that which
tollerc1440
allurer1556
ticer?c1562
invitera1586
siren1592
solicitor1593
mermaid1595
invitator1603
coy1629
attractor1646
coy-duck1654
lightning rod1859
Pied Piper1869
witcher1928
1654 in Dorothy Osborne's Lett. (1889) 287 A couple of coy-ducks drew in the rest.
1661 Sir H. Vane's Politicks 8 Niether the diving-brain of the Protectour..nor his coy-duck Thurloe.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Coy-duck,..an enticer; a snare. A very common name for pretty barmaids.
Derivatives
ˈcoy-duck v. dialect to entice.
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1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) ‘They'll coy-duck 'em away’.
1891 Longman's Mag. Nov. 83 (Kentish woman says) ‘'Tis the other chaps as coyduckses him away’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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