QUACK
\kwˈak], \kwˈak], \k_w_ˈa_k]\
Definitions of QUACK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the harsh sound of a duck
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an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
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act as a medical quack or a charlatan
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medically unqualified; "a quack doctor"
By Princeton University
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the harsh sound of a duck
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an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
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act as a medical quack or a charlatan
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medically unqualified; "a quack doctor"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
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To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
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To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
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The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
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A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
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Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
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Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
By Oddity Software
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To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
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To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
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To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
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The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
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A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
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Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
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Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
By Noah Webster.
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The cry of the duck, or a harsh sound like it; one who pretends to have medical skill or any skill that he does not possess; a pretender.
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To utter a harsh cry, as a duck; to pretend to be a doctor of medicine; to boast loudly.
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Pretending to know how to cure disease; as, a quack doctor.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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One who claims to have a knowledge of the science of medicine but who only has a smattering of it; one who advertises to cure all diseases.
By William R. Warner
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To cry like a duck: to beast: to practice as a quack.
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The cry of a duck: a boastful pretender to skill which he does not possess, esp. medical skill: a mountebank.
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Pertaining to quackery: used by quacks.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Pertaining to quackery; prescribed by a quack.
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The cry of a duck; one who pretends to knowledge or skill which he does not possess; a pretender to medical skill; a charlatan.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The cry of a duck.
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To cry like a duck.
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An ignorant pretender to medicine; a boastful pretender to skill or knowledge not possessed; an empiric.
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Falsely pretending to cure diseases; pert. to or tainted with quackery.
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To act or practise as a quack.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
