A duckling or young duck, especially used in older or dialect English to refer to a small duck.
From Old French 'canet,' a diminutive of 'cane' (duck). The word likely traveled through Norman French into Middle English, though it is now archaic or dialectal.
Cannet is an adorably specific old English word for a duckling—the kind of term you'd find in medieval recipes calling for 'cannet with peas'!
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