The Meaning of quack

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p. pr. & vb. n.

of Quack

v. i.

To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

v. i.

To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.

v. i.

To act the part of a quack, or pretender.

The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.

A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.

Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

pl.

of Quackery

The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.

See Quitch grass.

Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.

Quackery.

imp. & p. p.

of Quackle

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Quackle

v. i. & t.

To suffocate; to choke.

One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.