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canard

Etymology

Borrowed from French canard (“duck, hoax”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈnɑɹd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈnɑːd/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Noun

canard (plural canards)

1. A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
2. (aviation) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
3. (aviation, by extension) A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.

   Synonym: foreplane

4. (transport, engineering, by extension) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.

Synonyms

• (false or misleading report or story): hoax

Translations

Anagrams

• Arcand

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French canard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːˈnaːr/
• Hyphenation: ca‧nard

Noun

canard m (plural canards, diminutive canardje n)

1. (dialectal, East and West Flanders, possibly obsolete) duck
2. canard, hoax

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French canard, from Old French canart, quanart (“duck”), from cane (“female duck", also "boat”) + -ard. Perhaps ultimately from the same imitative root as caner (“cackle, prattle”) or from Old French cane (“boat, ship; waterbird”), from Middle Low German kane (“boat”), from Old Saxon *kano, from Proto-West Germanic *kanō, from Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *gan-, *gandʰ- (“vessel, tub”).

Compare Norwegian kane (“swan-shaped vessel”), German Kahn (“boat”), Old Norse kæna (“little boat”), and possibly Old Norse knǫrr (“ship”) (whence also Late Latin canardus (“ship”), from Germanic; and Old English cnearr (“merchant ship”)). Related to French canot (“little boat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.naʁ/
• (Paris)
• (Paris)
• (La Tuque)
• (Canada)
• Rhymes: -aʁ
• Homophone: canards

Noun

canard m (plural canards, feminine cane)

1. duck (of either sex)
2. drake (male duck)
3. canard, hoax
4. (slang, informal) newspaper

   Le Canard enchaîné
5. (slang, informal) a man who complies with every desire of his partner in order to avoid conflict
6. (slang, informal) a man who tries to attract women by offering them gifts
7. lump of sugar dunked in coffee or brandy
8. (music, colloquial) off-note

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Descendants

• → Dutch: canard
• → English: canard
• → Italian: canard
• → Portuguese: canard
• → Vietnamese: tin vịt (calque)

Further reading

• “canard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cadran

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French canard.

Noun

canard m (invariable)

1. canard, hoax

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French canard.

Noun

canard m (plural canards)

1. (aeronautics) canard (type of aircraft)
2. (transport, engineering) canard (winglike structure on a vehicle)