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{
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"2": "dum",
"3": "quacken",
"t": "to croak, quack"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "odt",
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"t": "to croak, quack"
},
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"name": "der"
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"2": "gmw-pro",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*kwakaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *kwakaną",
"name": "der"
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"2": "*kwakōną",
"t": "to croak"
},
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"args": {
"1": "stq",
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},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian kwoakje",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "kwaakje",
"t": "to quack"
},
"expansion": "kwaakje (“to quack”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "quaken",
"t": "to quack, croak"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German quaken (“to quack, croak”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "quaken",
"t": "to quack, croak"
},
"expansion": "German quaken (“to quack, croak”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "kvække",
"t": "to croak"
},
"expansion": "Danish kvække (“to croak”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "kväka",
"t": "to croak, quackle"
},
"expansion": "Swedish kväka (“to croak, quackle”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "kvekke",
"t": "to croak"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian kvekke (“to croak”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "kvaka",
"t": "to twitter, chirp, quack"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic kvaka (“to twitter, chirp, quack”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English *quacken, queken (“to croak like a frog; make a noise like a duck, goose, or quail”), from quack, qwacke, quek, queke (“quack”, interjection and noun), also kek, keke, whec-, partly of imitative origin and partly from Middle Dutch quacken (“to croak, quack”), from Old Dutch *kwaken (“to croak, quack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwakōn, from Proto-Germanic *kwakaną, *kwakōną (“to croak”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kwoakje, kwaakje (“to quack”), Middle Low German quaken (“to quack, croak”), German quaken (“to quack, croak”), Danish kvække (“to croak”), Swedish kväka (“to croak, quackle”), Norwegian kvekke (“to croak”), Icelandic kvaka (“to twitter, chirp, quack”).",
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"form": "quacks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"pos": "noun",
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"categories": [
{
"_dis": "18 18 13 6 5 1 13 10 16",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Animal sounds",
"orig": "en:Animal sounds",
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"Vocalizations",
"Sound",
"Communication",
"Energy",
"All topics",
"Nature",
"Fundamental"
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}
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{
"text": "Did you hear that duck make a quack?",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"The sound made by a duck."
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"duck#Noun"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baṭbaṭa",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "بَطْبَطَة"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "zabṭ",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "زَبْط"
},
{
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "pẽk pẽk",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "পেঁক পেঁক"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "krjakane",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "крякане"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nyec"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gá",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "嘎"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guā",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "呱"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "rap"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kwak"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "kvako"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "prääks"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "gvagg"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kvagg"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "kvaak"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "coin-coin"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "q̇iq̇ini",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "ყიყინი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Quaken"
},
{
"code": "el",
"english": "pa pa",
"lang": "Greek",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πα πα"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "háp"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "hápogás"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "andagagg"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "guss"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "kroaso"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "bramo"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vác"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "qua qua"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gā-gā",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "ガー ガー"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "quek-quek",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "クェッ クェッ"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "quwak-quwak",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "クワッ クワッ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "kkwaekkkwaek",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "꽥꽥"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kvák",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ква́к"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "wak"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "keakea"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "kēkē"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "kvakk"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kwaknięcie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kwak"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "kwa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "quac"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "quá quá"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "qué"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "quém"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "mac"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "mac-mac"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "măcăit"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "măcănit"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "măcăitură"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "imitative",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krja",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "кря"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "imitative",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krja-krjá",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "кря-кря́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "descriptive",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krjákanʹje",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "кря́канье"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "mhàg mhàg"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cuac"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cua"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kvack"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "kwak-kwak"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "gâap",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "ก้าบ"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "vak"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "cạc cạc"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"word": "cạp cạp"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "sound made by a duck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cwac"
}
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/kwæk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æk"
},
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/En-us-quack.ogg/En-us-quack.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/En-us-quack.ogg",
"tags": [
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],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"tags": [
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}
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"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "quacker"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "quack like a duck"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "quacky"
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"2": "gmw-pro",
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{
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{
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"1": "stq",
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"expansion": "Saterland Frisian kwoakje",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "kwaakje",
"t": "to quack"
},
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"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "quaken",
"t": "to quack, croak"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German quaken (“to quack, croak”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "quaken",
"t": "to quack, croak"
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"expansion": "German quaken (“to quack, croak”)",
"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "kvække",
"t": "to croak"
},
"expansion": "Danish kvække (“to croak”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "kväka",
"t": "to croak, quackle"
},
"expansion": "Swedish kväka (“to croak, quackle”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "kvekke",
"t": "to croak"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "kvaka",
"t": "to twitter, chirp, quack"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic kvaka (“to twitter, chirp, quack”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English *quacken, queken (“to croak like a frog; make a noise like a duck, goose, or quail”), from quack, qwacke, quek, queke (“quack”, interjection and noun), also kek, keke, whec-, partly of imitative origin and partly from Middle Dutch quacken (“to croak, quack”), from Old Dutch *kwaken (“to croak, quack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwakōn, from Proto-Germanic *kwakaną, *kwakōną (“to croak”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kwoakje, kwaakje (“to quack”), Middle Low German quaken (“to quack, croak”), German quaken (“to quack, croak”), Danish kvække (“to croak”), Swedish kväka (“to croak, quackle”), Norwegian kvekke (“to croak”), Icelandic kvaka (“to twitter, chirp, quack”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "quacks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "quacking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "quacked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "quacked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Do you hear the ducks quack?",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make a noise like a duck."
],
"id": "en-quack-en-verb-nSfVMEmV",
"links": [
[
"noise",
"noise#Noun"
],
[
"duck",
"duck#Noun"
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"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "zabaṭa",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "زَبَطَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "yekaaki",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"tags": [
"Egyptian-Arabic"
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"word": "يكاكي"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "as",
"lang": "Assamese",
"roman": "pẽk pẽküa",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "পেঁক পেঁকোৱা"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "krjakam",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "крякам"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "káchat"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "rappe"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kwaken"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kvaki"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "vaakkua"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "cancaner"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "q̇iq̇ini",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "ყიყინი"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "quaken"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "hápog"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "gagga"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "gussa"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kroasar"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "bramar"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kwek kwek"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "quaccar"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "anatrare"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ja",
"english": "duck",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gā-gā to naku",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "ガーガーと鳴く"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ja",
"english": "human",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gayagaya shaberu",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "ガヤガヤしゃべる"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "tetrinnio"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kváka",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "ква́ка"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "keakea"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kēkē"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kvekke"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kwakać"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "grasnar"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "grasnir"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "grassitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "gracitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "măcăi"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krjákatʹ",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "кря́кать"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krjáknutʹ",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "кря́кнуть"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "graznar"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "parpar"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kvacka"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "vaklamak"
}
]
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"ipa": "/kwæk/"
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{
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{
"audio": "en-us-quack.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/En-us-quack.ogg/En-us-quack.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/En-us-quack.ogg",
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],
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}
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"obsolete"
],
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}
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{
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "quackcinated"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "quackhood"
}
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"etymology_text": "Clipping of quacksalver (see there for more), of Dutch origin; ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.",
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{
"form": "quacks",
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"plural"
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{
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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}
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"Medicine",
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},
{
"_dis": "16 1 21 23 5 1 21 4 9",
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"langcode": "en",
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"Sciences",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "1662, Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to Late Times, Vol. II, by ‘the most Eminent Wits’\nTis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, …"
},
{
"ref": "1720, William Derham, Physico-theology",
"text": "After ſome Months, the Quack gets privately to Town, [...]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1981, S.O.B. (film)",
"text": "Polly (to security guard, referring to Dr. Feingarten): Are you going to let that shyster in there?\nDr. Feingarten: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack."
},
{
"ref": "2017 March 1, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 920 - Quack",
"text": "\"I don't want to get into specifics, but when I was born, my parts were considered... ambiguous. The quack of a doctor that delivered me, had trouble assigning a gender. So at his recommendation - and surgical intervention - I was raised as a boy.\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
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[
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"fraudulent"
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[
"healer",
"healer"
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[
"especially",
"especially"
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[
"bombastic",
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[
"peddler",
"peddler"
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[
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"worthless"
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[
"treatment",
"treatment"
],
[
"doctor",
"doctor"
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[
"make",
"make"
],
[
"false",
"false"
],
[
"diagnoses",
"diagnosis"
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[
"monetary",
"monetary"
],
[
"benefit",
"benefit"
],
[
"untrained",
"untrained"
],
[
"poorly",
"poorly"
],
[
"trained",
"trained"
],
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"credential",
"credential"
],
[
"attract",
"attract"
],
[
"patient",
"patient"
]
],
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],
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[
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"(figuratively, derogatory) Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional."
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"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "hy",
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"roman": "šaṙlatan",
"sense": "charlatan",
"word": "շառլատան"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"roman": "šarlatanin",
"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "шарлатанин"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kwakzalver"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kwakzalvster"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "charlatan",
"word": "huijari"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "charlatan"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "charlatane"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "charlatán"
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{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "ka",
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"roman": "šarlaṭani",
"sense": "charlatan",
"word": "შარლატანი"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "taɣliti",
"sense": "charlatan",
"word": "თაღლითი"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Quacksalber"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Quacksalberin"
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{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"roman": "tsarlatános",
"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "charlatan",
"word": "sarlatán"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"masculine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "loddari"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "is",
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"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"word": "sharlatano"
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{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "soidéalach"
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{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ciarlatano"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "imbonitore"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "it",
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"masculine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"sense": "charlatan",
"word": "ペテン師"
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{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "mk",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"person"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
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"masculine"
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"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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{
"_dis1": "8 92 0",
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"ref": "1916 August 5, Henry D. Estabrook, “Truth in Advertising [advertisement]”, in The Duluth Herald, volume XXXIV, number 102, Duluth, Minn.: The Herald Company, →OCLC, page 6",
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"code": "ar",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
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{
"code": "as",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "পেঁক পেঁকোৱা"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "krjakam",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "крякам"
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"code": "cs",
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"word": "káchat"
},
{
"code": "da",
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"word": "rappe"
},
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kvaki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "vaakkua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "cancaner"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "ყიყინი"
},
{
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "quaken"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "hápog"
},
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "gagga"
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"code": "is",
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"word": "gussa"
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"code": "io",
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"word": "kroasar"
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{
"code": "io",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "bramar"
},
{
"code": "id",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kwek kwek"
},
{
"code": "ia",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "quaccar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
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"word": "anatrare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"english": "duck",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "ガーガーと鳴く"
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"code": "ja",
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"word": "ガヤガヤしゃべる"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "tetrinnio"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kváka",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "ква́ка"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "keakea"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kēkē"
},
{
"code": "no",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kvekke"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kwakać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "grasnar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
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"word": "grasnir"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "grassitar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"word": "gracitar"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "măcăi"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
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"imperfective"
],
"word": "кря́кать"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
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],
"word": "кря́кнуть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"word": "graznar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "parpar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "kvacka"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to make a noise like a duck",
"word": "vaklamak"
}
],
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"Requests for review of Interlingua translations",
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"Requests for review of Romanian translations",
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"text": "That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!",
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"text": "1662, Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to Late Times, Vol. II, by ‘the most Eminent Wits’\nTis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, …"
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"ref": "1720, William Derham, Physico-theology",
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{
"ref": "1981, S.O.B. (film)",
"text": "Polly (to security guard, referring to Dr. Feingarten): Are you going to let that shyster in there?\nDr. Feingarten: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack."
},
{
"ref": "2017 March 1, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 920 - Quack",
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{
"word": "snake-oil salesman"
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{
"word": "medicaster"
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{
"word": "quacksalver"
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{
"tags": [
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hekʿim",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "հեքիմ"
},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "знахар"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "庸醫"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yōngyī",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "庸医"
},
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kvaksalver"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kwakzalver"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "et",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "imearst"
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "nurgaarst"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "puoskari"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "charlatan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "charlatane"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ekimbaši",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "ექიმბაში"
},
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"code": "de",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Kurpfuscher"
},
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"code": "el",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κομπογιαννίτης"
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"code": "el",
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"masculine"
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
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"masculine"
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
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"masculine"
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"code": "io",
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"code": "io",
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"code": "id",
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"code": "ga",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "dochtúir bréige"
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{
"code": "ja",
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"word": "やぶ医者"
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "ಅಳಲೆಕಾಯಿ ಪಂಡಿತ"
},
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"code": "nrf",
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"masculine"
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"code": "nn",
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"code": "pms",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
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"masculine"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
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"masculine",
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "znachor"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "mata-sanos"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "saobh-lèigh"
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "feall-lèigh"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "doktor-laway"
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"code": "th",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "หมอกำมะลอ"
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
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},
{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "üfürükçü"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
"word": "lang băm"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine",
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"word": "cwac"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "šaṙlatan",
"sense": "charlatan",
"word": "շառլատան"
},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "šarlatanin",
"sense": "charlatan",
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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},
{
"code": "nl",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "kwakzalvster"
},
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"code": "nl",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "charlatan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "charlatan",
"word": "huijari"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "charlatan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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},
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "charlatán"
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{
"code": "ka",
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"roman": "šarlaṭani",
"sense": "charlatan",
"word": "შარლატანი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
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"roman": "taɣliti",
"sense": "charlatan",
"word": "თაღლითი"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "de",
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"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "el",
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"sense": "charlatan",
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],
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},
{
"code": "hu",
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},
{
"code": "is",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "is",
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],
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},
{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "charlatan",
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"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
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"code": "io",
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},
{
"code": "ga",
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"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "charlatan",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "charlatan",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "ciarlatano"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "it",
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"code": "ja",
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"code": "kn",
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"person"
],
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{
"code": "pt",
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"masculine"
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"code": "th",
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"code": "th",
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"code": "io",
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"code": "pt",
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"ref": "1722, Daniel Defoe, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 36",
"text": "[…] it is incredible, and scarce to be imagin’d, how the Posts of Houses, and Corners of Streets were plaster’d over with Doctors Bills, and Papers of ignorant Fellows; quacking and tampering in Physick, and inviting the People to come to them for Remedies;",
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"word": "шарлатнствам"
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"ref": "1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 2",
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"ref": "1916 August 5, Henry D. Estabrook, “Truth in Advertising [advertisement]”, in The Duluth Herald, volume XXXIV, number 102, Duluth, Minn.: The Herald Company, →OCLC, page 6",
"text": "[R]ecently I examined as many newspapers and magazines as I could lay hands on just to see if I could find in them those old, alluring advertisements, ranging from the quack doctor to the quacker promoter and the quackest oracle of fate. There was nothing doing—everything as clean as a hound's tooth and as wholesome as sunshine.",
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"ref": "1948, The Prospect before Us: Some Thoughts on the Future, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., →OCLC, page 102",
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},
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"ref": "1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763",
"text": "When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.",
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"ref": "1991, Journal of the Association of Food and Drug Officials, volume 55, York, Pa.: The Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35",
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"ref": "1997, Jenny Uglow, “Allegories of Healing”, in William Hogarth: A Life and a World, London: Faber and Faber, page 506",
"text": "[William] Hogarth might have felt some sympathy for [Sally] Mapp as an 'irregular' expert besting pomposity, but this is topped by his sheer relish for her as the Quackest Quack of all, and female to boot. In Hogarth's print the dark goddess rules over her court of fools, men who have taken over the ancient realm of women's healing, and now profit from the people's ills and credulity.",
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