Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

ducky

/ˈdʌk.i/ adjective, noun

Forms duckier duckiest duckies duckie

adjective Resembling or characteristic of a duck.
noun (childish) A duck (aquatic bird), especially a toy rubber duck.
noun A term of endearment. “"Morning, ducky!" said Roderick, as he gave his partner a quick peck on the cheek and sat down to breakfast.”
noun (slang, obsolete, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
adjective (endearing, slang) Darling, charming, cute.
adjective (slang, dated) Great; going well; proceeding in an eminently agreeable fashion. “Farnesworth smiled contentedly as he read the stock ticker; all was ducky on Wall Street.”

Synonyms

From duck (“aquatic bird”) + -y.

From duck (“aquatic bird”) + -y (diminutive suffix).

From duck (term of endearment) + -y (diminutive suffix).

From duck (term of endearment) + -y.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “ducky”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details