quack
/kwæk/ · noun
Meaning
- The sound made by a duck.
- To make a noise like a duck.
- A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional; especially, a doctor of medicine who makes false diagnoses or inappropriate treatment; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
- A charlatan.
- A doctor.
- To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).
- To make vain and loud pretensions.
- Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.
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