quack
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/kwæk/
English
Definitions
noun
- The sound made by a duck.“Did you hear that duck make a quack?”
verb
- To make a noise like a duck.“Do you hear the ducks quack?”
noun
- 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.“That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!”
- A charlatan.
- A doctor.
verb
- To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).
- To make vain and loud pretensions.
adjective
- Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.“Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!”
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