'Canard' definitions:
Definition of 'canard'
(from WordNet)
noun
A deliberately misleading fabrication
Definition of 'Canard'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'canard'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- artifice,
- bouncer,
- broiler,
- bruit,
- buzz,
- caille,
- caneton,
- capon,
- chapon,
- chicken,
- common talk,
- concoction,
- Cornish hen,
- 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