Definition of quack

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Quack (v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.

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Quackery :: Quackery (n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism..
Quack Grass :: Quack grass () See Quitch grass.
Charlatanry :: Charlatanry (n.) Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Mountebankish :: Mountebankish (a.) Like a mountebank or his quackery.
Quacksalver :: Quacksalver (n.) One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank..
Quackish :: Quackish (a.) Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
Saltimbanco :: Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.
Quack :: Quack (n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise..
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine..
Quack :: Quack (n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan..
Medicaster :: Medicaster (n.) A quack.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
Quackeries :: Quackeries (pl. ) of Quacker.
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Salver :: Salver (n.) One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack..
Quacking :: Quacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quac.
Merry-andrew :: Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor..
Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Empirically :: Empirically (adv.) By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
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