Canard's a French word for a duck, and's often used in English to refer to a deliberately false story, originating from an abbreviated form of an old French idiom, "vendre un canard à moitié," meaning "to half-sell a duck." It may refer to: Canard (aeronautics), flight control surfaces mounted at the front of an aircraft or an aircraft bearing such surfaces Le Canard enchaîné, a satirical French newspaper, based on the French usage of canard to mean a newspaper. Canard (dy… (More on Canard)