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charlatan |
one who deceitfully claims to possess a particular skill or expertise; fraud; quack. |
couch grass |
a grass that has creeping rootstocks, by which it spreads rapidly, and is considered a troublesome weed; quack grass; quitch. |
mountebank |
anyone who peddles goods, services, or ideas through misrepresentation; quack; charlatan. [1/2 definitions] |
nostrum |
a medicine with undisclosed ingredients, advertised without proof as an effective cure; quack remedy. [1/2 definitions] |
quack1 |
to utter a quack. [1/2 definitions] |
quack2 |
like or relating to a quack. [2/3 definitions] |
quackery |
the claims, methods, or practice of a quack. |
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