| Pronunciation: | | ku'nârd
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| Matching Terms: | | canara, canarese, canaries, canary, canary bird, canary creeper, canary grass, canary island hare's foot fern, canary islands, canary seed, canary whitewood, canary wine, canary yellow, canarybird flower, canarybird vine, canary-yellow
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| | Definition: | | [n] a deliberately misleading fabrication |
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| | See Also: | | fable, fabrication, fiction |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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