Duck: A “duck” is a piece of sugar soaked in a liqueur or eau-de-vie, in coffee.
The expression “Take/suck a duck”: Take/suck a piece of sugar dipped in a drink.
It is by comparison with the essentially aquatic life of the palmiped that came, in the 1727th century, quoted by Furetière in XNUMX, the expression wet like a duck, perfectly equivalent to soaked like a soup.
If we add to this image the frequent movement of the bird's beak...
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