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31quack — I. /kwæk / (say kwak) verb (i) 1. to utter the cry of a duck, or a sound resembling it. –noun 2. the cry of a duck, or some similar sound. {imitative. Compare Dutch kwaken, German quacken} II. /kwæk / (say kwak) noun 1. an ignorant or fraudulent… …
32quack grass — noun European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed • Syn: ↑dog grass, ↑couch grass, ↑quackgrass, ↑quick grass, ↑witch grass, ↑witchgrass, ↑Agropyron repens …
33Quack — 1) A practitioner who suggests the use of substances or devices for the prevention or treatment of disease that are known to be ineffective. 2) A person who pretends to be able to diagnose or heal people, but is unqualified and incompetent. * * * …
34quack — 1. noun /kwæk/ a) The sound made by a duck. Did you hear that duck make a quack? b) A fraudulent healer or incompetent doctor of medicine, an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice …
35quack — {{11}}quack (n.) medical charlatan, 1630s, short for quacksalver (1570s), from Du. kwaksalver, lit. hawker of salve, from M.Du. quacken to brag, boast, lit. to croak (see QUACK (Cf. quack) (v.)) + zalf salve (see SALVE (Cf. salve) (v.)). Cf. Ger …
36quack — I UK [kwæk] / US noun [countable] Word forms quack : singular quack plural quacks 1) a) informal a doctor who is not very good, or someone who cheats people by pretending to be a doctor b) British informal, showing disapproval a doctor 2) the… …
37quack — I. intransitive verb Etymology: alteration of queck to quack, from Middle English queken, from queke, interjection, of imitative origin Date: 14th century to make the characteristic cry of a duck II. noun Date: 1798 a noise made by quacking III.… …
38Quack Pack — Couacs en vrac Couacs en vrac Titre original Quack Pack Genre Série d animation Production Walt Disney Television Animation Pays d’origine  États Unis …
39quack — noun a quack selling fake medicines Syn: swindler, charlatan, mountebank, trickster, fraud, fraudster, impostor, hoaxer; informal con man, snake oil salesman, shark, grifter •• quack, charlatan, dissembler, fake, impostor, mountebank There are… …
40quack grass — Inland North and North Midland U.S. a couch grass, Agropyron repens, a pernicious weed in cultivated fields. [1810 20] * * * ▪ plant also called couch grass , or quick grass (Agropyron repens) rapidly spreading grass of the family… …
