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Etymology
onomatopoetic|Onomatopoetic.

Pronunciation
IPA|/kwæk/
audio|en-us-quack.ogg|Audio (US)
rhymes|æk

Noun
en-noun

1. The sound made by a duck.

#:Did you hear that duck make a quack?

1. A fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine, an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.

#:That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!

1. A charlatan.
2. slang A doctor.

Quotations
1662: Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to Late Times, Vol. II, by �the most Eminent Wits�
:Tis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, [...]
1720: William Derham, Physico-theology
:After Å¿ome Months, the Quack gets privately to Town, [...]

Translations
trans-top|sound made by a duck
Faroese: gvagg, kvagg
Finnish: t-|fi|kvaak
Greek: t|el|�α �α|sc=Grek (pa pa)
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Russian: к��-к�� (kr'a-kr'a), к��кан�е (kr'ákan'je) n
Swedish: kvack n
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trans-top|fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine
Finnish: t+|fi|puoskari
German: t+|de|Quacksalber|m
Greek: t|el|κομ�ογιαννί�η�|m|scGrek (kompoyannítis), t|el|αλμ�άνη�|m|scGrek (albánis)
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Russian: t+|ru|�а�ла�ан|m|tršarlatán|scCyrl
Swedish: kvacksalvare c
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trans-top|charlatan
Finnish: t+|fi|huijari
German: t+|de|Quacksalber|m
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Russian: �а�ла�ан (šarlatán) m
Greek: t|el|��α�λα�άνο�|m|sc=Grek (tsarlatános)
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trans-top|doctor
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ttbc|Dutch: kwak (1), kwakzalver (2, 3)
ttbc|French: coin-coin (1) m; charlatan m (2, 3); toubib m (4)
ttbc|Indonesian: kwek-kwek (1), gadungan (2, 3)
ttbc|Interlingua: quac (1)
ttbc|Italian: qua qua (1) m; ciarlatano (2, 3); dottore (4)
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ttbc|Japanese: ��� ���(quek-quek), ��� ���(quwak-quwak)(1), ���� (yabuisha)(2)
ttbc|Polish: kwak (1) szarlatan (2,3) konowa� (4)
ttbc|Romanian: mac (1) �arlatan (2,3)
ttbc|Spanish: cuac (1); curandero m (2), matasanos m inv
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See also
Quack-salver (Quack-saluer)

Adjective
en-adj|-

1. falsely presented as having medicinal powers.

#:Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!

Verb
en-verb

1. To make a noise like a duck.

#:The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.
#:Do you hear the ducks quack?

Derived terms
quack like a duck�

Translations
Dutch: kwaken
Finnish: vaakkua
French: faire coin-coin
German: t+|de|quaken
Interlingua: quaccar
Italian: fare qua qua
Romanian: m�c�i
Russian: к��ка�� (kr'ákat�) impf, к��кн��� (kr'áknut�) pf
Spanish: decir cuac

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• 2008-01-01 19:57 - Keene - /* Verb */ [[quack like a duck‎ ]

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