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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: quack (0.01037 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to quack.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: quack
dukun, membebek, tukang obat
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: quack
quack
adj : medically unqualified;
“a quack doctor” [syn:
quack(a)]
quack
n 1: an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who
dispenses medical advice
2: the harsh sound of a duck
quack
v 1: utter quacking noises;
“The ducks quacked”
2: act as a medical quack or a charlatan
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Quack
Quack
\Quack\, a.
Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension;
used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack
medicine; a quack doctor.
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Quack
\Quack\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Qvacked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quacking.] [Of imitative origin; cf. D. kwaken, G. quacken,
quaken, Icel. kvaka to twitter.]
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1. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
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2. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
“ To quack
of universal cures.” --Hudibras.
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3. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
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Quack
\Quack\, n.
1. The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a
hoarse, quacking noise. --Chaucer.
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2. [Cf.
Quacksalver.] A boastful pretender to medical
skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
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3. Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge
of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
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Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical.
--Carlyle.
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