canard
pronunciation
How to pronounce canard in British English:
UK [kæˈnɑ:d]
How to pronounce canard in American English:
US [kəˈnɑrd]
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- Noun:
- a deliberately misleading fabrication
Word Origin
- canard (n.)
- before 1850, from French canard "a hoax," literally "a duck" (from Old French quanart, probably echoic of a duck's quack); said by Littré to be from the phrase vendre un canard à moitié "to half-sell a duck," thus, from some long-forgotten joke, "to cheat."
Example
- 1. The canard led to an event which shocked the school .
- 2. That was a delta wing , so the canard is not used for primary pitch control .
- 3. Mr. obama repeats the canard that china 's remarkable economic success is due to sinister currency deflation .
- 4. This canard was started by william herndon .
- 5. That hobsbawm " whitewashed " the crimes of communism is largely a canard .