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Meanings of quack in inglés
Someone who practices medicine without proper qualifications and/or promotes ineffective medical treatments.
Usage of quack in inglés
1
The duck recovered enough to quack in a feeble and dubious manner.
2
In cases of indiscretion, the quack treatment is always with mercury-notwithstandingdenials.
3
Unable to supply themselves, the majority became the victims of quack traders.
4
The quack waved his great hands as though brushing aside a curtain.
5
There was a terrible amount of sickness aggravated by American quack remedies.
6
He spoke of hydrotherapy and gymnastic exercises, and called himself a quack.
7
Oppianicus then contrived to introduce to her a traveling quack from Ancona.
8
I am not altogether a quack, nor is this a county fair.
9
It wasn't very scary, but as scary as any quack could be.
10
A quack had brought a remedy which would cure gangrene, he said.
11
In Oliver's Protectorate, this quack informs us that he wrote freely enough.
12
Senator Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, denounced this proposition as a quack nostrum.
13
So I don't care a quack whether YOU like it or not.
14
It will be a wonder if she can do anything but quack!
15
Presently comes a whistling noise of wings, and a loud 'quack, quack!'
16
Young people, you know-andcradled the next quack and a half.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common