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quack

2  [kwak]
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–noun
1. a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
2. a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to skill, knowledge, or qualifications he or she does not possess; a charlatan.
–adjective
3. being a quack: a quack psychologist who complicates everyone's problems.
4. presented falsely as having curative powers: quack medicine.
5. of, pertaining to, or befitting a quack or quackery: quack methods.
–verb (used with object)
6. to treat in the manner of a quack.
7. to advertise or sell with fraudulent claims.
Origin:
1620–30; short for quacksalver

Related forms:
quackish, adjective
quack⋅ish⋅ly, adverb
quack⋅ish⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
2. mountebank, phony.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2quack
Function: adjective
: of, relating to, characteristic of, or being a quack <quack remedies>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

quack (kwāk)
n.

  1. An untrained person who pretends to be a physician and dispenses medical advice and treatment.

  2. A charlatan.

quack'er·y n.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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