quack

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The vocalisation made by a duck.

   “Did you hear that duck make a quack?”

2. fiil Of a duck, to make its characteristic vocalisation.

   “The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.”

3. fiil To make a sound similar to the quack of a duck.
4. fiil Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
5. ünlem A duck's quack.
6. isim 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

   “That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!”

7. isim Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.

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

8. isim Any doctor.

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

9. fiil To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).

   “[…] it is incredible, and scarce to be imagin’d, how the Posts of Houses, and Corners of Streets were plaster’d over with Doctors Bills, and Papers of ignorant Fellows; quacking and tampering in Physick, and inviting the People to come to them for Remedies;”

10. fiil To make vain and loud pretensions.

    “Seek out for Plants with Signatures To Quack of Universal Cures”

11. sıfat Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.

    “Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!”