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Dictionary translations for "canard"

le canard m noun

pl. canards

duck [dʌk] (ornithologie)

Où est le canard en caoutchouc ?

Where is the rubber duck?

canard [kæˈnɑ:d] (fausse nouvelle)

Phrases with "canard" (24)

avoir une démarche de canard - waddle like a duck
bleu canard - peacock blue
canard à l'orange - duck in orange sauce
canard boîteux - lame duck
canard de Barbarie - Muscovy duck
canard laqué - Peking duck
canard mandarin - mandarin duck
canard sauvage - wild duck
canard à la presse - roast duck served with a sauce of juices
canard à la rouennaise - duck stuffed with its liver in a blood-thickened sauce

Contexts with "canard"

Où est le canard en caoutchouc ? Where is the rubber duck?

Il a préparé une sauce aux airelles pour accompagner le canard. He made a cranberry sauce to accompany duck.

La vache meugle, le coq chante, le cochon grouine, le canard cancane, et le chat miaule. The cow goes "moo," the rooster goes "cock-a-doodle-doo," the pig goes "oink, oink," the duck goes "quack, quack" and the cat goes "meow."

La vache fait "meuh", le coq fait "cocorico", le cochon fait "groin, groin", le canard fait "coin, coin" et le chat fait "miaou". The cow goes "moo," the rooster goes "cock-a-doodle-doo," the pig goes "oink, oink," the duck goes "quack, quack" and the cat goes "meow."

Les commentateurs ont décrit le son des vuvuzelas comme "épuisant" et "satanique" et l'ont comparé avec "un troupeau d'éléphants en furie", "un amas assourdissant de sauterelles", "une chèvre allant à l'abattoir", "une gigantesque ruche remplie d'abeilles en furie", et à un "canard drogué aux amphétamines". Commentators have variously described the sound of vuvuzelas as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm of locusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", "a giant hive full of very angry bees", and "a duck on speed".

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