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quack

QUACK, v.i.

1. To cry like a duck or goose.

2. To boast; to bounce; to talk noisily and ostentatiously; as, pretenders to medical skill quack of their cures.

QUACK, n. [from the verb.]

1. A boaster; one who pretends to skill or knowledge which he does not possess.

2. A boastful pretender to medical skill which he does not possess; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.



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QUACK, v.i.

1. To cry like a duck or goose.

2. To boast; to bounce; to talk noisily and ostentatiously; as, pretenders to medical skill quack of their cures.

QUACK, n. [from the verb.]

1. A boaster; one who pretends to skill or knowledge which he does not possess.

2. A boastful pretender to medical skill which he does not possess; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

QUACK, n. [from the verb.]

  1. A boaster; one who pretends to skill or knowledge which he does not possess. – Felton.
  2. A boastful pretender to medical skill which he does not possess; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner. – Addison.

QUACK, v.i. [D. kwaaken, G. quaken, Dan. qvakker, to croak.]

  1. To cry like a duck or goose. – King.
  2. To boast; to bounce; to talk noisily and ostentatiously; as, pretenders to medical skill quack of their cures. – Hudibras.

Quack
  1. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
  2. The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.

    Chaucer.
  3. Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
  4. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.

    " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras.
  5. A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
  6. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
  7. Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.

    Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical. Carlyle.

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Quack

QUACK, verb intransitive

1. To cry like a duck or goose.

2. To boast; to bounce; to talk noisily and ostentatiously; as, pretenders to medical skill quack of their cures.

QUACK, noun [from the verb.]

1. A boaster; one who pretends to skill or knowledge which he does not possess.

2. A boastful pretender to medical skill which he does not possess; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

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QUAIL, v.i. [Quail, in English, signifies to sink or languish, to curdle, and to crush or quell.]

1. To sink into dejection; to languish; to fail in spirits. [Little used.]

2. To fade; to wither. Obs.

QUAIL, v.i.

To curdle; to coagulate; as milk.

QUAIL, v.t. To crush; to depress; to sink; to subdue. [This orthography is obsolete. The word is now written quell.]

QUAIL, n.

A bird of the genus Tetrao or grouse kind, or according to Latham's arrangement, of the genus Perdix, in which he comprehends the partridge and quail. In New England, the name is applied to a peculiar species of the perdix, which is called partridge in the middle states, but it is neither the partridge nor quail of Europe.

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