Definitions for quack

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Spelling: [kwak]

IPA: /kwæk/

Quack is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in quack (ackqu).

Definitions for quack

noun

1. the harsh, throaty cry of a duck or any similar sound.
2. a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
3. a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to skill, knowledge, or qualifications he or she does not possess; a charlatan.

adjective

1. being a quack:
2. presented falsely as having curative powers:
3. of, relating to, or befitting a quack or quackery:

verb (used with object)

1. to treat in the manner of a quack.
2. to advertise or sell with fraudulent claims.

verb (used without object)

1. to utter the cry of a duck or a sound resembling it.

Origin of quack

1610-20; imitative; compare Dutch kwakken, German quacken

Examples for quack

When all was said, a man in the presence of this quack did feel in the presence of a great man.

The one object of the quack doctor is to size you up and see what you "are good for."

Partridge, cobbler, astrologer, almanac-maker and quack (died 1708).

If no pay is asked for the "stuff," the quack is seldom or ever a loser.

Even the quack doctor, Dr. Gopalarajan, derives a real glimmer of joy from believing he has “helped, not harmed” a fellow being.

Google his name, and the top two related searches come up as “Daniel Amen scam” and “Daniel Amen quack.”

As for his being a quack doctor, I see no great harm in that.

Humor and historical distance allow me to illustrate how a quack operates in a way that I could not with a contemporary example.

Duck calls are short, whistle-like tools used to emit “quack” sounds in order to lure ducks for hunting.

As a mountebank, a juggler, a quack doctor—I spurned the very idea.