canard

French

noun
Definitions
  • duck of either sex
  • drake male duck
  • canard, hoax
  • (slang) newspaper
  • (slang) a man who complies with every desire of his partner in order to avoid conflict
  • (slang) a man who tries to attract women by offering them gifts
  • lump of sugar dunked in coffee or brandy
  • (music) off-note

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French canard (duck, male duck) inherited from Old French quanart (duck) inherited from Middle French canard (duck, male duck) inherited from Old French cane (ship, sugar cane, boat, waterbird) derived from Middle Low German kane (boat) derived from Proto-Germanic *kanô (vessel, boat) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gan-.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gan-

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