"quack" Definition

Definitions for the word "quack" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. i.
To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. a.
Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
Harsh sound made by ducks. v. Utter this sound. [imitative]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
9. n.
1 unqualified practitioner, esp. Of medicine; charlatan (often attrib.: quack cure). 2 slang any doctor. quackery n. [abbreviation of quacksalver from dutch: probably related to *quack1, *salve1]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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