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Cosa (chi) è QUACKS - definizione
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
quack1
¦ noun the characteristic harsh sound made by a duck.
¦ verb make this sound.
Origin
C16: imitative.
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quack2
¦ noun
1. an unqualified person who dishonestly claims to have medical knowledge.
2. Brit. informal a doctor.
Derivatives
quackery noun
quackish adjective
Origin
C17: abbrev. of earlier quacksalver, from Du., prob. from obs. quacken 'prattle' + salf, zalf (see salve1).
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
Esempi dal corpus di testo per QUACKS
1. By Adar Primor If it walks, quacks and looks like duck, it must be a duck.
2. Ignoring their solutions is like ignoring the judgment of medical science in favor of faith healers and quacks.
3. The so–called ‘cash for quacks‘ bill is nearly seven times higher than previous estimates of 340,000.
4. But if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it‘s probably a duck.
5. The 70s, of course, was a time of cults and quacks, and in 1'77 top US TV current affairs programme Sixty Minutes turned its attention to Pritikin.