quack

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The vocalisation made by a duck.
    — Did you hear that duck make a quack?
  2. A fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an untrained or poorly trained doctor who uses fraudulent credentials to attract patients derogatory
    — That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!
  3. Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional. derogatory,figuratively
    — The very quaik of faſhions, the very hee that / VVeares a Steletto on his chinne.
  4. Any doctor. derogatory,humorous,mildly,slang
    — That quack wants me to quit smoking, eat less, and start exercising. The nerve!
动词 v.
  1. Of a duck, to make its characteristic vocalisation.
    — The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.
  2. To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).
    — […] it is incredible, and scarce to be imagin’d, how the Posts of Houses, and Corners of Streets were plaster’d over with Doctors Bills, and Papers of ignorant Fellows; quacking and tampering in Physick, and inviting the People to come to them for Remedies;
  3. To make a sound similar to the quack of a duck.
  4. To make vain and loud pretensions. obsolete
    — Seek out for Plants with Signatures To Quack of Universal Cures
  5. Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development. intransitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.
    — Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!
感叹词 intj.
  1. A duck's quack.

词形变化

quacks plural quaake alternative,obsolete quacks present,singular,third-person quacking participle,present quacked participle,past quacked past quaake alternative,obsolete quaake alternative,obsolete quacks plural quacks present,singular,third-person quacking participle,present quacked participle,past quacked past more quack comparative quacker comparative most quack superlative quackest superlative

词汇关系

近义词
snake-oil salesman medicaster quacksalver pharmacopole
上位词
deceiver physician and pharmacist
衍生词
quacker quackle quackless quack like a duck quacky quackademic quackbuster quackbusting quackcinated quackery quackhood quackish quackism quacklike quackster quacktitioner

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *quacken, queken (“to croak like a frog; make a noise like a duck, goose, or quail”), from quack, qwacke, quek, queke (“quack”, interjection and noun), also kek, keke, whec-, partly of imitative origin and partly from Middle Dutch quacken (“to croak, quack”), from Old Dutch *kwaken (“to croak, quack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwakōn, from Proto-Germanic *kwakaną, *kwakōną (“to croak”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kwoakje, kwaakje (“to quack”), Middle Low German quaken (“to quack, croak”), German quaken (“to quack, croak”), Danish kvække (“to croak”), Swedish kväka (“to croak, quackle”), Norwegian kvekke (“to croak”), Icelandic kvaka (“to twitter, chirp, quack”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Middle Dutch quacsalven
Dutch quacksalverbor.
English quacksalverclip.
English quack
Clipping of quacksalver (see there for more), of Dutch origin; ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.
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