Quack
Definitions
- The sound made by a duck.
- 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
- Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.
- Any doctor.
Equivalents
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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!”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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