Canard

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Canard \Ca*nard"\, n. [F., properly, a duck.]
     An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated
     sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the
     newspapers to hoax the public.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  canard
       n : a deliberately misleading fabrication

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "canard":
     Cornish hen, artifice, bouncer, broiler, bruit, buzz, caille,
     caneton, capon, chapon, chicken, common talk, concoction, cry,
     dindon, dodge, duck, duckling, extravaganza, fable, fabrication,
     faisan, falsehood, falsity, fib, fiction, figment, flying rumor,
     forgery, fowl, fryer, goose, grapevine, grouse, guinea hen,
     hearsay, hoax, humbug, idea afloat, invention, latrine rumor, lie,
     misrepresentation, myth, news stirring, oie, on-dit, partridge,
     pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, poulet, prevarication, quail, report,
     roaster, romance, roorback, rumble, rumor, scuttlebutt, sell,
     spoof, squab, stewing chicken, tale, talk, town talk, trick,
     turkey, unconfirmed report, untruth, volaille, whisper,
     wild duck