Quack

Quick meaning: Quack is a noun meaning The vocalisation made by a duck.

Meaning

The vocalisation made by a duck.

More Meanings

1. Of a duck, to make its characteristic vocalisation.
2. To make a sound similar to the quack of a duck.
3. (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
4. A duck's quack.
5. (figuratively, derogatory) Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.
6. (humorous slang, mildly derogatory) Any doctor.
7. (derogatory) 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

Example Sentences

Do you hear the ducks quack?

Did you hear that duck make a quack?

That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!

After ſome Months, the Quack gets privately to Town, [...]

Word Forms

• quacks
• quaake
• quacking
• quacked
• quacker
• quackest

Synonyms for quack

Depending on context, synonyms include medicaster, quacksalver, pharmacopole, boast.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unqualified, mountebank, charlatan, faker, fake, fraud.

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