canard
Meanings
Noun
1. duck (of either sex)
2. drake (male duck)
3. canard, hoax
4. newspaper (slang, informal)
5. a man who complies with every desire of his partner in order to avoid conflict (slang, informal)
6. a man who tries to attract women by offering them gifts (slang, informal)
7. lump of sugar dunked in coffee or brandy
8. off-note (music, colloquial)
Examples37
Les canards eurent là une belle occasion de pondre des oeufs de toute couleur.
The tabloids found it a fine opportunity for hatching all sorts of hoaxes.
Duval ne répond pas, il a lu le canard, cette affaire de cambriole.
Duval doesn't respond, he read the paper, this affair of the burglary.
Usant de gros titres, le canard met en garde la population.
Using headlines, the paper warns the population.
Donald Duck est un canard.
Donald Duck is a duck.
Quelle est la différence entre un canard ?
What's the difference between a duck?
Il élève un beau canard.
He's raising a beautiful duck.