Quack
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English
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Noun
Quack (plural Quacks)
- a sound made by a duck.
- Did you hear that duck make a quack?
- a fraudulent doctor of medicine, an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
- That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!
- a charlatan.
- What a quack he is, saying that's an organic Viagra™ !
- (slang) a doctor.
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Translations
- Dutch: kwak (1), kwakzalver (2, 3)
- Finnish: kvaak (1), puoskari (2, 3)
- French: coin-coin (1) m; charlatan m (2, 3); toubib m (4)
- German: Quacksalber m (2, 3)
- Indonesian: kwek-kwek (1), gadungan (2, 3)
- Interlingua: quac (1)
- Italian: qua qua (1) m; ciarlatano (2, 3); dottore (4)
- Polish kwak (1) szarlatan (2,3) konowaÅ (4)
- Russian: кÑÑ-кÑÑ (krja-krja) (1)
- Spanish: cuac (1); curandero m (2)
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Adjective
quack (no comparative or superlative)
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Verb
to quack (third-person singular simple present quacks, present participle quacking, simple past quacked, past participle quacked)
- 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?
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