What does duck-footed mean?

duck-footed

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English

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Informal

"I am tired of these duck-footed Leydeners, who daren't wink at a donkey lest he should bray."
"Texas Southern's Jim Hines, 20, is not the least bit pigeon-toed—in fact, he's just a little duck-footed, and it may be a good thing."

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pigeon-toed

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