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- pronunciation:
- kwaek
- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective, intransitive verb
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noun |
| definition 1: |
someone who practices medicine incompetently and often without proper training.
The quack's medicines consisted mainly of alcohol and odd flavorings.He was arrested as a quack.- synonyms:
- charlatan
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| definition 2: |
anyone who fraudulently claims a particular skill or knowledge.
Their so-called lawyer was a quack, who got them into trouble.- synonyms:
- charlatan, fake, fraud, pretender
- similar words:
- mountebank
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| related words: |
adventurer, doctor, fake, fraud, humbug, phony |
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
of, concerning, being, or characteristic of a quack.
That quack doctor put your life in danger.Many people became seriously ill after taking quack remedies.- synonyms:
- fake
- similar words:
- counterfeit, false, fraudulent, phony, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
quacks, quacking, quacked |
| definition: |
to act as a quack.
- similar words:
- cheat, deceive, fake, pretend
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| derivations: |
quackish (adj.), quackishly (adv.), quackishness (n.) |
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