Quacky
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Quacky is an adjective meaning (of a voice or sound) That resembles the quack of a duck.
Meaning
(of a voice or sound) That resembles the quack of a duck.
More Meanings
- Fraudulent; characterised by or using the methods of quackery.
- (US, of land or a crop) Infested with quackgrass.
Example Sentences
The Doctor says that some of the quackiest of the quacks are in the army.
The housemother was a relief housemother, and she was quacky, and we didn't think she knew anything.
David's expression changes. A quack? All this act is about some quacky, pseudo science, right on, I know something you don't cult thing.
1998 September 9, Joni Mitchell, interview quoted in 2003, Alan Hecht, Polio, page 72, I know this sounds real quacky but they did some mysterious good to the problem and I feel fine.
Word Forms
- quackier
- quackiest
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include quackish, quacklike, ducky, duckish, ducklike, quaillike.
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