Quack
21quack — {{11}}quack (n.) medical charlatan, 1630s, short for quacksalver (1570s), from Du. kwaksalver, lit. hawker of salve, from M.Du. quacken to brag, boast, lit. to croak (see QUACK (Cf. quack) (v.)) + zalf salve (see SALVE (Cf. salve) (v.)). Cf. Ger …
22quack — I UK [kwæk] / US noun [countable] Word forms quack : singular quack plural quacks 1) a) informal a doctor who is not very good, or someone who cheats people by pretending to be a doctor b) British informal, showing disapproval a doctor 2) the… …
23quack — I. intransitive verb Etymology: alteration of queck to quack, from Middle English queken, from queke, interjection, of imitative origin Date: 14th century to make the characteristic cry of a duck II. noun Date: 1798 a noise made by quacking III.… …
24quack — 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… …
25quack — 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,… …
26quack — quack1 [ kwæk ] noun count 1. ) INFORMAL a doctor who is not very good, or someone who cheats people by pretending to be a doctor 2. ) the sound that a DUCK makes quack quack 2 [ kwæk ] verb intransitive to make the sound that a DUCK makes …
27quack — English has two words quack. The one denoting the call of a duck [17] originated of course as an imitation of the sound itself. Quack ‘person claiming to be a doctor’ [17] is short for an earlier quacksalver, which etymologically denoted ‘someone …
28quack — 1 verb (I) to make the sound that ducks make 2 noun (C) informal 1 someone who pretends to have medical knowledge or skills: a quack doctor 2 BrE a doctor: You d better go and see the quack with that burn. 3 (C) a word used especially by or to… …
29quack — n. a fraudulent physician; a derogatory term for a physician. □ I won’t go back to that quack ever again! □ Tell that quack to heal himself! …
30quack — English has two words quack. The one denoting the call of a duck [17] originated of course as an imitation of the sound itself. Quack ‘person claiming to be a doctor’ [17] is short for an earlier quacksalver, which etymologically denoted ‘someone …
