People calling each other "duck"

It's a northern thing: East Midlands in particular.

It originates from an abbreviation of "conductor", i.e. on a bus or a train. "Ay up 'duc" is what you would (traditionally) say to the conductor as you got onto the bus / tram / train, and eventually it made its way into the more general vocabulary.

I don't use it personally, unless I'm being facetious...



Edit: It has nothing to do with waterfowl :p
 
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It's used around Lincolnshire as well, gets on my nerves TBH ( I'm from Essex ), I've lived in the midlands 8 years and I've never said it and never will.
 
I was dragged up on the border of nottingham and derby (D.H. Lawrence town btw) so i get the roughest slang of both counties.
In't it....me duk!
But no point scratin abaat it!
 
One of my clients kept calling me "Horse"
Didn't wanna ask why he did that, anyone care to fill in this gap in my knowledge?
 
Supercow said:
One of my clients kept calling me "Horse"
Didn't wanna ask why he did that, anyone care to fill in this gap in my knowledge?
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Maybe an out of work activity? Your username is Supercow for starters :p
 
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valkia said:
yes it happens a lot in Stoke, since I moved here. Drives me nuts! It's not like they say it once or twice it's like on every sentence.


Not just "Duck" they also use "Sug" too, suppose it's short for sugar. Proper annoying IMO
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Are you mad duck?
 
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