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Quack

Quack (quack)
v. i.(?)
Quack
[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 (quack)
n.
Quack
  1. The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
    Chaucer.
  2. 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. Carlyle.

Quack

Quack (quack)
a.
Quack
  1. 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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