quacktitioner

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of quack (“charlatan doctor”) +‎ practitioner

Noun

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quacktitioner (plural quacktitioners)

  1. (humorous) A medical, or other, practitioner of dubious merit.
    • 1866, Sarah Hammond Palfrey, Herman: Or, Young Knighthood, volume I, page 120:
      “What Mrs. Malaprop might justly call a quacktitioner, perhaps.”
    • 1927, D.S. Jordan, chapter II, in Higher Foolishness, page 66:
      In this business of pluviculture (as I have nicely named it) the operator (aptly called a "quacktitioner") promises showers on a thirsty land.
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