Definition of 'canard'
Word forms: plural canards
countable noun
A canard is an idea or a piece of information that is false, especially one that is spread deliberately in order to harm someone or their work.
The charge that Harding was a political stooge may be a canard.
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Word origin of 'canard'
C19: from French: a duck, hoax, from Old French caner to quack, of imitative originWebster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by
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Word origin of 'canard'
Fr, a duck, hoax; prob. < can, echoic for duck's quack + -ard, -ard; short for (vendre) un canard (à moitié), lit., (to half-sell) a duck, i.e., to cheatExample sentences containing 'canard'
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