duckletEtymologyFrom duck + -let.nounA small duck or duckling.“Immediately there was a spurt of water, the flash of a quickening body - and that was the ducklet as he dived away to join his mates!”A small duck or duckling.; A young female duck.“The copulatory organ looks like a pinkish root tip and its presence denotes a drakelet. In the cloaca of a ducklet no such organ can be seen.”