Quack

[Quack]

There are good quacks and bad quacks. A good quack is the sound a duck makes. A bad quack is someone pretending to be a doctor. (You'd be better off visiting the duck with your ailment.)

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To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

Noun
the harsh sound of a duck

Noun
an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice

Verb
act as a medical quack or a charlatan

Verb
utter quacking noises; "The ducks quacked"


v. i.
To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

v. i.
To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.

v. i.
To act the part of a quack, or pretender.

n.
The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.

n.
A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

n.
Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.

a.
Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.


Quack

Quack , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Qvacked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Quacking.] [Of imitative origin; cf. D. kwaken, G. quacken, quaken, Icel. kvaka to twitter.] 1. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck. 2. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras. 3. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.

Quack

Quack, n. 1. The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise. Chaucer. 2. [Cf. Quacksalver.] A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner. 3. Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical.

Quack

Quack, a. Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.

Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

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