December 14, 2007
Saturday, 15th December 2007 : Today's Word is ...
Canard
Pronunciation : ke-naard
1. a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor
2. Cookery: a duck intended or used for food
3. Aeronautics:
(A):an airplane that has its horizontal stabilizer and elevators located forward of the wing.
(B):Also called canard wing. one of two small lifting wings located in front of the main wings.
(C):an early airplane having a pusher engine with the rudder and elevator assembly in front of the wings.
French - duck, canard - probably from the phrase vendre un canard � moiti� - to sell half a duck - to swindle, from Old French quanart, duck, from caner, to cackle, of imitative origin
dissimulation, distortion, equivocation, erroneousness,
error, fable, fabrication, fakery,
fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity,
feigning, fib, fibbery, fiction,
figment, fraud, half truth, hogwash,
line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury,
pretense, prevarication, sham, story,
tale, untruism, untruth, untruthfulness,
whopper, yarn
true statement, truth, verity
� In London that night poor Henderson's telegram describing the gradual unscrewing of the shot was judged to be a canard.
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