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noun 
  1. The sound made by a duck.
Did you hear that duck make a ?
  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 !
  1. A charlatan.
  2. (slang) A doctor.
Translations: 
  • German: Quacksalber(de)m
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 ?
Translations: 
  • Dutch: kwaken
  • French: faire coin-coin
  • German: quaken(de)
  • Italian: fare qua qua
  • Spanish: decir cuac
adjective 
  1. falsely presented as having medicinal powers.
Don't get your hopes up; that's medicine!
Etymology: onomatopoetic, Onomatopoetic.


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