Meaning of Quack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The sound made by a duck.
2. A 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
   derogatory
3. Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.
   derogatory, figuratively
4. Any doctor.
   derogatory, humorous, mildly, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Did you hear that duck make a quack?”

“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, …”

“After ſome Months, the Quack gets privately to Town, [...]”

“‘if we are ourselves valets, there shall ‘exist no hero for us; we shall not know the hero when we see him;’ - we shall take the quack for a hero; and cry, audibly through all ballot-boxes and machinery whatsoever, Thou art he; be thou King over us!”

“The advertising quack who wearies / With tales of countless cures, / His teeth, I've enacted, / Shall all be extracted / By terrified amateurs.”

“Polly (to security guard, referring to Dr. Feingarten): Are you going to let that shyster in there? Dr. Feingarten: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.”

“"I don't want to get into specifics, but when I was born, my parts were considered... ambiguous. The quack of a doctor that delivered me, had trouble assigning a gender. So at his recommendation - and surgical intervention - I was raised as a boy."”

“The very quaik of faſhions, the very hee that / VVeares a Steletto on his chinne.”

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

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