duck (of either sex) / drake (male duck) / canard, hoax / newspaper / a man who complies with every desire of his partner in order to avoid conflict / a man who tries to attract women by offering them gifts / lump of sugar dunked in coffee or brandy / off-note

mottled duck (Anas fulvigula)

American wigeon

lame duck (person or thing that is helpless, inefficient or disabled)

Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope)

mandarin duck

ugly duckling

(idiomatic) to suck up to; flatter too much

(informal) bitter cold; brass monkeys weather, bust ass cold weather, beastly cold weather

to be nothing to write home about (to be mediocre; to be nothing out of the ordinary; to be nothing special)