Synonyms for ducks and drakes
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Stone skipping — A pastime of throwing flat stones across water so as to make them bounce off the surface
stone skipping, stone skimming, drakestoning, stone skiffing
2. Wasting — the squandering of resources, especially money; used in expressions such as "to make ducks and drakes of"…
Definitions
- n. 1
A pastime of throwing flat stones across water so as to make them bounce off the surface.
- n. 2
The squandering of resources, especially money; used in expressions such as "to make ducks and drakes of", "to play (at) ducks and drakes with".
Example sentences
- wasting Let's stop wasting time and get on with this work.
- squandering Morocco is squandering Western Sahara's resources.
By length
- 7 letters
- wasting2
- 11 letters
- squandering3
- 12 letters
- drakestoning
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (wasting2 = 2 syllables).