QUACK

v. n. a.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

2.
v.

To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras.

3.
v.

To act the part of a quack, or pretender.

4.
n.

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

5.
n.

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

6.
n.

Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan. Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical. Carlyle.

7.
a.

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

← QUACHA Q — all words QUACK GRASS →
Browse all “Q” words Find “QUACK” in other definitions

98,828 entries. Headwords are matched first, then definition text.