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"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", 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"Saterland Frisian kwoakje", "name": "cog" }, { "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”).", "forms": [ { "form": "quacks", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "quacking", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "quacked", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "quacked", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "quack (third-person singular simple present quacks, present participle quacking, simple past and past participle quacked)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "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" ] ], "translations": [ { "_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" ], "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": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "sense": "to make a noise like a duck", "word": "鴨鴨叫" }, { "_dis1": "93 7", "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "roman": "aap² aap² giu³", "sense": "to make a noise like a duck", "word": "鸭鸭叫" }, { 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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", 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"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" }, { 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"1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, Part 3, Canto 1, p. 18:", "text": "Seek out for Plants with Signatures\nTo Quack of Universal Cures", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To make vain and loud pretensions." ], "id": "en-quack-en-verb-z3W7dkK1", "links": [ [ "vain", "vain" ], [ "pretension", "pretension" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "boast" } ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/kwæk/" }, { "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" }, { "rhymes": "-æk" } ], "word": "quack" } { "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "quacksalver" }, "expansion": "Clipping of quacksalver", "name": "clipping" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "nl", "3": "-" }, "expansion": "Dutch", "name": "der" } ], 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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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1948, The Prospect before Us: Some Thoughts on the Future, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., →OCLC, page 102:", "text": "Finding, perhaps, that there is no solution either in politics or in any existing religion, he [the common man] may cling to the diagnosis of the last and quackest of his doctors: he may believe that art can save himself and the world.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1976 March 27, F. 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Monk):", "text": "‘if we are ourselves valets, there shall ‘exist no hero for us; we shall not know the hero when we see him;’ - we shall take the quack for a hero; and cry, audibly through all ballot-boxes and machinery whatsoever, Thou art he; be thou King over us!", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “A More Humane Mikado”, in […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC, Act II, page 36:", "text": "The advertising quack who wearies / With tales of countless cures, / His teeth, I've enacted, / Shall all be extracted / By terrified amateurs.", "type": "quote" }, { "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": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an untrained or poorly trained doctor who uses fraudulent credentials to attract patients" ], "links": [ [ "derogatory", "derogatory" ], [ "fraudulent", "fraudulent" ], [ "healer", "healer" ], [ "especially", "especially" ], [ "bombastic", "bombastic" ], [ "peddler", "peddler" ], [ "worthless", "worthless" ], [ "treatment", "treatment" ], [ "doctor", "doctor" ], [ "make", "make" ], [ "false", "false" ], [ "diagnoses", "diagnosis" ], [ "monetary", "monetary" ], [ "benefit", "benefit" ], [ "untrained", "untrained" ], [ "poorly", "poorly" ], [ "trained", "trained" ], [ "use", "use" ], [ "credential", "credential" ], [ "attract", "attract" ], [ "patient", "patient" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(derogatory) A fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an untrained or poorly trained doctor who uses fraudulent credentials to attract patients" ], "senseid": [ "en:doctor" ], "tags": [ "derogatory" ] }, { "categories": [ "English derogatory terms", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 32:", "text": "The very quaik of faſhions, the very hee that / VVeares a Steletto on his chinne.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional." ], "links": [ [ "derogatory", "derogatory" ], [ "similar", "similar" ], [ "charlatan", "charlatan" ], [ "incompetent", "incompetent" ], [ "professional", "professional" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(figuratively, derogatory) Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional." ], "tags": [ "derogatory", "figuratively" ] }, { "categories": [ "English derogatory terms", "English humorous terms", "English slang", "English terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "text": "That quack wants me to quit smoking, eat less, and start exercising. 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[ "masculine" ], "word": "знахар" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "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" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "kvaksalver" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "kwakzalver" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "kwakzalfster" }, { "code": "et", "lang": "Estonian", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "imearst" }, { "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": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "valelääkäri" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "charlatan" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "charlatane" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "ekimbaši", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "ექიმბაში" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Quacksalber" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Kurpfuscher" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "kompogiannítis", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "κομπογιαννίτης" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "almpánis", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "αλμπάνης" }, { "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "roman": "rofé elíl", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "רוֹפֵא אֱלִיל" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "kuruzsló" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "sarlatán" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "skottulæknir" }, { "code": "io", "lang": "Ido", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "sharlatano" }, { "code": "io", "lang": "Ido", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "medikacho" }, { "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "dukun" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "dochtúir bréige" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "yabuisha", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "やぶ医者" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "roman": "moguri no isha", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "もぐりの医者" }, { "code": "kn", "lang": "Kannada", "roman": "aḷalekāyi paṇḍita", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "ಅಳಲೆಕಾಯಿ ಪಂಡಿತ" }, { "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "roman": "nadrilekar", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "надрилекар" }, { "code": "nrf", "lang": "Norman", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "Jersey", "masculine" ], "word": "dgéthisseux" }, { "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "kvakksalver" }, { "code": "nn", "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "kvakksalvar" }, { "code": "pms", "lang": "Piedmontese", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "charlatão" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine", "person" ], "word": "konował" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "znachor" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "feminine", "masculine" ], "word": "mata-sanos" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "šarlatán", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "шарлата́н" }, { "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "saobh-lèigh" }, { "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "feall-lèigh" }, { "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "sgoiteach" }, { "code": "gd", "lang": "Scottish Gaelic", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "sionnal" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "matasanos" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "tags": [ "common-gender" ], "word": "kvacksalvare" }, { "code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "doktor-laway" }, { "code": "th", "lang": "Thai", "roman": "mɔ̌ɔ-gam-má-lɔɔ", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "หมอกำมะลอ" }, { "code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "sense": "fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine", "word": "şarlatan" }, { "code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "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", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "cwac" }, { "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "roman": "šaṙlatan", "sense": "charlatan", "word": "շառլատան" }, { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "šarlatanin", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "шарлатанин" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "kwakzalver" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "kwakzalfster" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "charlatan" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "charlatan", "word": "puoskari" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "charlatan" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "charlatane" }, { "code": "gl", "lang": "Galician", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "charlatán" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "šarlaṭani", "sense": "charlatan", "word": "შარლატანი" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "roman": "taɣliti", "sense": "charlatan", "word": "თაღლითი" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "Quacksalber" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "Quacksalberin" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "roman": "tsarlatános", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "τσαρλατάνος" }, { "code": "grc", "lang": "Ancient Greek", "roman": "okhlagōgós", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "ὀχλαγωγός" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "charlatan", "word": "sarlatán" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "fúskari" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "loddari" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "falsari" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "svikari" }, { "code": "io", "lang": "Ido", "sense": "charlatan", "word": "sharlatano" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "potrálaí" }, { "code": "ga", "lang": "Irish", "sense": "charlatan", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "soidéalach" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", 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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;", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine)." ], "links": [ [ "quackery", "quackery" ], [ "fraudulent", "fraudulent" ], [ "medicine", "medicine" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, Part 3, Canto 1, p. 18:", "text": "Seek out for Plants with Signatures\nTo Quack of Universal Cures", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To make vain and loud pretensions." ], "links": [ [ "vain", "vain" ], [ "pretension", "pretension" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "boast" } ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/kwæk/" }, { "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" }, { "rhymes": "-æk" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "šarlatnstvam", "sense": "commit quackery", "word": "шарлатнствам" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "commit quackery", "word": "kwakzalveren" } ], "word": "quack" } { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English clippings", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English onomatopoeias", "English terms derived from Dutch", "English verbs", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Requests for review of Indonesian translations", "Requests for review of Interlingua translations", "Requests for review of Italian translations", "Requests for review of Romanian translations", "Requests for review of Spanish translations", "Rhymes:English/æk", "Rhymes:English/æk/1 syllable", "Terms with Ancient Greek translations", "Terms with Armenian translations", "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "Terms with Danish translations", "Terms with Dutch translations", "Terms with Estonian translations", "Terms with Finnish translations", "Terms with French translations", "Terms with Galician translations", "Terms with Georgian translations", "Terms with German translations", "Terms with Greek translations", "Terms with Hebrew translations", "Terms with Hungarian translations", "Terms with Icelandic translations", "Terms with Ido translations", "Terms with Indonesian translations", "Terms with Interlingua translations", "Terms with Irish translations", "Terms with Italian translations", "Terms with Japanese translations", "Terms with Kannada translations", "Terms with Macedonian translations", "Terms with Mandarin translations", "Terms with Norman translations", "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations", "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations", "Terms with Piedmontese translations", "Terms with Polish translations", "Terms with Portuguese translations", "Terms with Romanian translations", "Terms with Russian translations", "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations", "Terms with Spanish translations", "Terms with Swedish translations", "Terms with Tagalog translations", "Terms with Thai translations", "Terms with Turkish translations", "Terms with Vietnamese translations", "Terms with Welsh translations", "en:Animal sounds", "en:Healthcare occupations", "en:People", "en:Scientists" ], "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "quacksalver" }, "expansion": "Clipping of quacksalver", "name": "clipping" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "nl", "3": "-" }, "expansion": "Dutch", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "Clipping of quacksalver (see there for more), of Dutch origin; ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.", "forms": [ { "form": "more quack", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "quacker", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most quack", "tags": [ "superlative" ] }, { "form": "quackest", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "more", "2": "er" }, "expansion": "quack (comparative more quack or quacker, superlative most quack or quackest)", "name": "en-adj" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "quacker and quackest are rare, and probably used humorously" }, "expansion": "(quacker and quackest are rare, and probably used humorously)", "name": "term-label" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "English terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "text": "Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 2:", "text": "In precisely the same way does a quack doctor prescribe his infallible nostrum to every patient, without taking into account differences of constitution, or [...]", "type": "quote" }, { "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1948, The Prospect before Us: Some Thoughts on the Future, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., →OCLC, page 102:", "text": "Finding, perhaps, that there is no solution either in politics or in any existing religion, he [the common man] may cling to the diagnosis of the last and quackest of his doctors: he may believe that art can save himself and the world.", "type": "quote" }, { "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1991, Journal of the Association of Food and Drug Officials, volume 55, York, Pa.: The Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:", "text": "They desperately want to believe something will help and for that reason they assist one another in obtaining unproven remedies. Such \"helpful\" promotion is generally more \"quack\" than fraudulent in nature.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1997, Jenny Uglow, “Allegories of Healing”, in William Hogarth: A Life and a World, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, 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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Falsely presented as having medicinal powers." ], "links": [ [ "Falsely", "falsely" ], [ "presented", "present#Verb" ], [ "medicinal", "medicinal" ], [ "powers", "power#Noun" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/kwæk/" }, { "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" }, { "rhymes": "-æk" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "falsely presented as having medicinal powers", "word": "svika-" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "falsely presented as having medicinal powers", "word": "fals-" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "falsely presented as having medicinal powers", "word": "skottu-" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "falsely presented as having medicinal powers", "word": "empirico" } ], "word": "quack" }
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