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widgeon (n.)
migratory wild duck, 1510s, perhaps from some variant of French
vigeon
, which some trace to Latin
vipionem
(nominative
vipio
), "a kind of small crane," a Balearic word, perhaps imitative. OED, however, finds all this "very dubious."
