quack

[ UK /kwˈæk/ ]
[ US /ˈkwæk/ ]
VERB
  1. act as a medical quack or a charlatan
  2. utter quacking noises
    The ducks quacked
NOUN
  1. an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
  2. the harsh sound of a duck
ADJECTIVE
  1. medically unqualified
    a quack doctor
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How To Use quack In A Sentence

  • This link is sort of off-topic but really not, as it's yet another case (as in the present one) of the media doing their level best to shout down "the critics" -- the nattering nabobs of negativism -- and then, years later, admitting that the "gadflies" were right all along, and that what looked like a scam, walked like a scam, and quacked like a scam was -- quelle surprise! Funky math with Mark Larabee (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • Their definition of quackery is the application of treatments that have not been scientifically proven to have any effects, that are practiced by physicians as well as specialists without a MD and they organise congresses from time to time where they say things like this. The Organisation against Quackery
  • Such quackeries do not make old people young and ugly girls pretty.
  • Quackenbush, 43, has not announced a reelection bid but has formed a campaign committee.
  • From the beginning, professions mobilised themselves in their defence against quacks and impostors through associations or institutes.
  • I'm sorry to say that it's not true about the quack of a duck.
  • They are easy to blow and get a "ducky" quack, and you can find a replacement just about anywhere if you lose it or break it. I am a beginner hunter and wanted to get some calls for duck and goose.
  • The chatter of Farash and the others seemed as senseless as the idiotic quacking of ducks, and yet at the same moment, they all seemed to be an integral part of the great design of things.
  • Does it quack like an Ed? Times, Sunday Times
  • 'As before the pike will fly' in which Coeur-de-Lion's discomfiture of the 'septemvirate of quacks' is hymned; and the finale is quite Attic. Gryll Grange
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