Quack+medicine
11quack — quack1 [kwak] vi. [echoic] to utter the characteristic sound or cry of a duck, or a sound like it n. the sound made by a duck, or any sound like it quack2 [kwak] n. [short for QUACKSALVER] 1. an untrained person who practices medicine… …
12quack — [[t]kwæ̱k[/t]] quacks, quacking, quacked 1) N COUNT: oft N n (disapproval) If you call someone a quack or a quack doctor, you mean that they claim to be skilled in medicine but are not. I went everywhere for treatment, tried all sorts of quacks.… …
13quack — noun a quack selling fake medicines Syn: swindler, charlatan, mountebank, trickster, fraud, fraudster, impostor, hoaxer; informal con man, snake oil salesman, shark, grifter •• quack, charlatan, dissembler, fake, impostor, mountebank There are… …
14quack — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. charlatan, quacksalver, mountebank. See deception, falsehood, unskillfulness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. unprincipled, pretentious, dissembling; see dishonest 1 , 2 , false 1 . n. Syn. charlatan,… …
15quack — 1. v. & n. n. the harsh sound made by ducks. v.intr. 1 utter this sound. 2 colloq. talk loudly and foolishly. Etymology: imit.: cf. Du. kwakken, G quacken croak, quack 2. n. 1 a an unqualified practiser of medicine. b (attrib.) of or… …
16medicine — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. medicament, medication, remedy; therapy, physic; medical profession. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The healing profession] Syn. medical men, healers, practitioners, doctors, physicians, surgeons, osteopaths …
17patent medicine — pat·ent medicine pat ənt , Brit usu pāt n a packaged nonprescription drug which is protected by a trademark and whose contents are incompletely disclosed also any drug that is a proprietary * * * a drug or remedy protected by a trademark,… …
18medicine man — Synonyms and related words: charlatan, exorciser, exorcist, horse doctor, medicaster, medicine monger, mundunugu, obeah doctor, quack, quacksalver, shaman, shamanist, unspeller, voodoo, voodooist, wangateur, witch doctor, witch master, witch… …
19quack — Synonyms and related words: blagueur, bluff, bluffer, cackle, call, carol, caw, charlatan, charlatanic, charlatanish, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chuck, clack, cluck, cock a doodle doo, coo, counterfeit, counterfeiter,… …
20quack — kwæk n. one who practices medicine without having the proper qualifications; impostor, charlatan; sound made by a duck v. produce a quacking sound like that of a duck; impersonate, pose as a professional (esp. a doctor); deceive, mislead adj.… …
