quacknoun詞源 1/kwæk/

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  The vocalisation made by a duck.

  • Did you hear that duck make a quack?
  • Twice a day she took them out to feed in the marshy places, let them waddle and gobble for an hour or two, and then drove them back and shut them up in a small dark shed to digest their meal, whence they gave forth occasionally a melancholy quack.

quackverb詞源 1/kwæk/

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  Of a duck, to make its characteristic vocalisation.

  • The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.
  • Do you hear the ducks quack?
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  To make a sound similar to the quack of a duck.

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  Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

quackintj詞源 1/kwæk/

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  A duck's quack.

quacknoun詞源 2/kwæk/

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  derogatoryA fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an untrained or poorly trained doctor who uses fraudulent credentials to attract patients

  • That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!
  • 1662, Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to Late Times, Vol. II, by ‘the most Eminent Wits’ Tis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, …
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  derogatoryAny similar charlatan or incompetent professional.

  • The very quaik of faſhions, the very hee that / VVeares a Steletto on his chinne.
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  derogatoryslangAny doctor.

  • That quack wants me to quit smoking, eat less, and start exercising. The nerve!

quackverb詞源 2/kwæk/

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  To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).

  • […] it is incredible, and scarce to be imagin’d, how the Posts of Houses, and Corners of Streets were plaster’d over with Doctors Bills, and Papers of ignorant Fellows; quacking and tampering in Physick, and inviting the People to come to them for Remedies;
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  obsoleteTo make vain and loud pretensions.

  • Seek out for Plants with Signatures To Quack of Universal Cures

quackadj詞源 2/kwæk/

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  Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.

  • Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!
  • In precisely the same way does a quack doctor prescribe his infallible nostrum to every patient, without taking into account differences of constitution, or [...]