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Qué (quién) es quack - definición
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Quacks; Quaack; Quack (disambiguation)
quack
An action beyond description.
Did anyone just see that quack?
Did anyone just see that quack?
quack
(quacks, quacking, quacked)
1.
If you call someone a quack or a quack doctor, you mean that they claim to be skilled in medicine but are not.
I went everywhere for treatment, tried all sorts of quacks.
N-COUNT: oft N n [disapproval]
2.
Quack remedies or quack cures are medical treatments that you think are unlikely to work because they are not scientific.
ADJ: ADJ n [disapproval]
3.
When a duck quacks, it makes the noise that ducks typically make.
There were ducks quacking on the lawn.
VERB: V
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Quack is also a noun.
Suddenly he heard a quack.
N-COUNT; SOUND
Quack
·vi To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
II. Quack ·vi To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
III. Quack ·vi To make vain and loud pretensions; to Boast.
IV. Quack ·noun A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
V. Quack ·noun The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
VI. Quack ·noun Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
VII. Quack ·adj Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
Ejemplos de uso de quack
1. The consultancy industry has created a mystique that allows it to charge gullible clients absurdly inflated fees for quack remedies.
2. Critics point to some of these more unconventional ideas in deriding him as a quack.
3. However, one must be very careful lest he should trust a medical condition to a quack.
4. She suppressed her Bermondsey quack in favour of an American twang, and sang Lynn Anderson‘s venerable country song Rose Garden.
5. Authorities believe this to be evidence that the black–magic quack was interested in more than money.