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Revision as of 00:26, 16 March 2015
English
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) IPA(key): /kwæk/ - (deprecated use of
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parameter)Audio (US): (file) - (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *(deprecated template usage) quacken, (deprecated template usage) queken, from (deprecated template usage) quack, (deprecated template usage) qwacke, (deprecated template usage) quek, (deprecated template usage) queke (interjection and noun), also (deprecated template usage) kek, (deprecated template usage) keke, (deprecated template usage) whec-, partly of imitative origin and partly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch (deprecated template usage) quacken, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Dutch *(deprecated template usage) kwaken, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *kwakaną, *kwakōną (“to croak”), of imitative origin.[1] Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Saterland Frisian (deprecated template usage) kwoakje, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Low German (deprecated template usage) quaken, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German (deprecated template usage) quaken, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Danish (deprecated template usage) kvække, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish (deprecated template usage) kväka, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Norwegian (deprecated template usage) kvekke, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Icelandic (deprecated template usage) kvaka.
Noun
quack (plural quacks)
- The sound made by a duck.
- Did you hear that duck make a quack?
Translations
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Verb
quack (third-person singular simple present quacks, present participle quacking, simple past and past participle quacked)
- To make a noise like a duck.
- The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.
- Do you hear the ducks quack?
Derived terms
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References
- ^ Robert E. Lewis, Middle English dictionary, Volume 8, queke.
Etymology 2
c 1630, shortening of quacksalver, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch (deprecated template usage) kwaksalver ((deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch (deprecated template usage) kwakzalver), from (deprecated template usage) quacken
Noun
quack (plural quacks)
- A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
- That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!
- Polly (to security guard, referring to Dr. Feingarten): Are you going to let that shyster in there?
- Dr. Feingarten: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.
- - From the motion picture SOB
- 1662: Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to Late Times, Vol. II, by ‘the most Eminent Wits’
- Tis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, [...]
- 1720: William Derham, Physico-theology
- After ſome Months, the Quack gets privately to Town, [...]
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 8, The Electon
- ‘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!
- A charlatan.
- Carlyle
- Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical.
- (deprecated template usage) (slang) A doctor.
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:deceiver
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
quack (third-person singular simple present quacks, present participle quacking, simple past and past participle quacked)
- To practice or commit quackery.
- (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
- Hudibras
- To quack of universal cures.
- Hudibras
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Adjective
quack (not comparable)
Translations
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/æk
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle Dutch
- English terms derived from Old Dutch
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English slang
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English onomatopoeias
- en:Animal sounds