| 单词 | quack cure | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasquack cure  C1.   General attributive, with sense ‘of or belonging to a quack’, as  quack advertisement,  quack bill,  quack cure,  quack medicine, etc.; also appositive, with sense ‘that is a quack’, as  quack doctor,  quack physician, etc. ΚΠ 1670    in  Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires 		(Brit. Mus.)	 		(1870)	 I. 583  				The Infallible Mountebank or Quack Doctor. 1695    W. W. Novum Lumen Chirurgicum Extinctum (title page)  				The Base Imposture of his Quack Medicines. 1699    E. Ward London Spy I.  iii. 7  				We are as equally able to tell the truth of the Story,as a Quack-astrologer is by the assistance of the Signs and Planets. a1704    T. Brown Table-talk in  Wks. 		(1707)	 I. ii. 38  				A Chymist..put out a Quack-Bill. 1707    T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 		(1886)	 II. 65  				Mr. Bolton..now a quack-Physitian in London. 1749    L. Pilkington Mem. 		(new ed.)	 II. xii  				I disregard the Criticks Frown, And all the Quack-Bards of the Town. 1751    W. Warburton in  Wks. of Alexander Pope IV. 29  				The bills of Quack-Doctors and Quack-Booksellers being usually pasted together on the same posts. 1785    European Mag. 8 469  				A dialogue between the doctor and his clerk satirizes quack advertisements. 1855    R. Browning Bishop Blougram 366  				Quack-nonsense about crowns, And..The vague idea of setting things to rights. 1905    A. Bennett Tales of Five Towns  i. 94  				You see roundabouts, swings,..atrocity booths, quack dentists. 1965    ‘W. Trevor’ Boarding-house vii. 86  				Potatoes on string, badger's oil, rhubarb—there's not a quack cure I haven't heard of. 2003    S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 148  				He was a generous giver to medical causes, yet he fell for every quack medicine doing the rounds. < as lemmas  | 
	
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