Have you heard the term Swamp Duck

In My Humble Opinion
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I heard someone use the term ‘swamp duck’ today. I’d never heard it so I looked it up. Apparently it has several unrelated meanings. Some being:

~Often used by teachers, this term is widely used and will often make you cringe. (Sam please take your hat and headphones off my little swamp duck")
~It refers to a person that can do so many things, but master of nothing. (jack of all trades)
~A snitch, a liar, a conniver.

Among other things. I even read it can be a term of endearment! But in my 60 + years on this planet, that was the first time I’ve heard it.

Have you heard it, and if so, in what context?

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Nope, never heard it.
If it’s a regional thing, I’m in Wisconsin.

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The weird thing about the teacher definition is that it was described as “widely used”. Now granted, not a rock solid cite, but still…

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I live in northern New England and have never heard it before in my life.

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Where did you look this up? Because some sites, like Urban Dictionary, let just about anyone add whatever they want without needing cites or any sort of reference.

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DC Metro - never heard it before. Would assume it meant a stinky person.

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Maybe that’s like UD, but I did get lots of search hits and I actually heard someone use it.

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The homepage for that site says, “Feel free to add or update your Word or Slang Expression” so it’s open to anyone adding anything.

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Like I said above I never heard the term before in northern New England

but my first thought that comes to mind when I hear it is “a hillbilly for the rural bayous/swamps of Florida and/or Louisiana”.

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Yep, a bayou dweller. Can be nice or not nice according to how it’s used.

(Duck Dynasty peeps have monitized it)

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It was certainly meant as a term of endearment as used in long running British soap Coronation Street:

Great Britain 2020 TV Show Coronation Street - Vera my little swamp duck Stamp SG4378 MUH

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Born & raised in SoCal, lived all over the country, now in urban South Florida.

First time I’ve heard or read the term.

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Be kind to your web-footed friends
For a duck might be somebody’s mother
Be kind to the denizens of the swamp
For they live where it’s very damp

A swamp duck is just a duck, to me.

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Childhood menories

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Never heard the term before. If I had to guess without context, I’d have through it referred to a double-crested cormorant. They’re common in Florida swamps and rivers.

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Ah, but what is a Swamp Rabbit?

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Chicago, never heard it.

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Finger Lakes New York, have been elsewhere in USA, never heard it. I would have assumed somebody was talking about a kind of duck that likes swamps; though that probably includes quite a few ducks.

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Been a teacher in SoCal for 37 years. Never heard the expression until the OP.

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Both US coasts, never heard it. /ex-teacher (K-12, community college, undergraduate, graduate, 37 years in the classroom)