burdekin duck
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.65 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A food dish made from leftovers or ingredients to hand, usually including corned beef.
Australian usage; Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The Burdekin duck is also large, and bronze and white in colour. They are found in large numbers on the River Burdekin, from which they derive their name."
- "The park is one of Australia's chief refuges for several bird species, including the Burdekin duck and magpie goose."
- "The park is one of the chief refuges in Australia for several species, among them the magpie goose, green pygmy-goose and Burdekin duck."
- "The duck on his left shoulder is the chestnut teal (mudjigin), and the one on his right is a burdekin duck (tindirrgam)."
- "1977, Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery, Rigby, 1977, →ISBN (discussing 19th century cookery), even the exotic-sounding "Burdekin duck" consists of nothing more than slices of cold beef fried in batter."
- "It was loaded with food; sponge-cakes each higher and lighter than the next and oozing frothy cream, plates of sandwiches, egg and lettuce, corned-beef and pickle, and ‘Burdekin Duck’ made of bacon and tomato and cheese squashed up."
Etymology
From Burdekin (“a surname”); named after the Burdekin River, Queensland, which in turn was named for Mrs. Thomas Burdekin, who provided assistance to the expedition during which the river was discovered (by Europeans).
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.