QUACKS

/kwæks/
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Definition

/kwæks/
noun
  1. The sound made by a duck.
    “Did you hear that duck make a quack?”
verb
  1. To make a noise like a duck.
    “Do you hear the ducks quack?”
noun
  1. A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional; especially, a doctor of medicine who makes false diagnoses or inappropriate treatment; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
    “That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!”
  2. A charlatan.
  3. A doctor.
verb
  1. To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).
  2. To make vain and loud pretensions.

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