decoy-duckn.
/dɪˈkɔɪˌdʌk//ˈdiːkɔɪdʌk/ 1. A duck trained to decoy its fellows.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > decoy bird > decoy-duck
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1651 C. Walker High Court of Justice 34 These..are rewarded like Decoy Duckes for their paines.
1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xxii. 167 These decoy ducks are kept in the decoy, and trained to come in for food whenever they..hear a low whistle from the decoy-man.
2. figurative. A person who entices another into danger or mischief.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] > one who entraps
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a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne iv. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggggg/1 You are worse then simple widgins, and will be drawne into the net by this decoy ducke, this tame cheater.
1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia Dram. Personæ Shamwell..being ruin'd by Cheatly, is made a Decoy-Duck for others.
1887 Daily News 11 July 3/1 At Monte Carlo..he was employed as a decoy duck.
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