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Mar. 11, 2017
canard\kuh-NAHRD\noun
1. a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
2. Cookery. a duck intended or used for food.
QuotesThis week, Lewandowski distinguished himself by reviving the
birther canardthe thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory that Barack
Obama was not born in the United States.
-- Margaret Talbot, "The Trouble with Corey Lewandowski on CNN," The
New Yorker, August 6, 2016
Origin of canardCanard is from Old French quanart drake, literally
cackler, from the onomatopoeiccaner to cackle and the suffix -art,
a variant of -ard, as in mallard or braggart. Canardis all that is left
of the Middle French idiom vendre un canard à moitié to sell half a
duck, i.e., to take in, swindle, cheat. Canard entered English in
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