Word Meaning

quack definition and meaning

v. i. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
v. i. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
v. i. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
n. The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
n. A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
n. Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
a. Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

Crossword clues for quack

- Cry of a duck
- Make duck call
- Physician
- Snake oil salesman
- What Drake calls dodgy doctor 
- What Mallard says to shonky doctor