quack

quack is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras.
  2. 2.To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
  3. 3.The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise. Chaucer.
  4. 4.Etym: [Cf. Quacksalver.] A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
  5. 5.Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan. Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical. Carlyle.
  6. 6.Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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  • Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
  • Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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