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noun kwakkwæk The characteristic harsh sound made by a duck. I heard a quack and saw some ducks huddled together Example sentencesExamples - I'm sorry to say that it's not true about the quack of a duck.
- But even from the vague hints he throws out, I think we may rest assured it will not be the last quack of a lame duck.
- As we took off, I could hear a faint quack of relief from Archie's new acquaintances.
- All this takes place in quacks, of course, but the detailed character animation conveys a wide range of emotions.
- One theory is that the sound of the quack tails away, which makes the echoes difficult to hear.
- This is an interesting link for anyone who was wondering about those duck quacks.
- I heard a thump and a quack, and guessed that he'd run into the wall (head first, as usual).
- These sounds, called clicks, can be produced in such rapid succession as to sound like a buzz or even a duck-like quack.
verb kwakkwæk [no object]1(of a duck) make a quack. ducks quacked from the lake Example sentencesExamples - She will also turn her attention to Irish ducks, which presumably quack with an agreeable brogue.
- Down near the pond, the ducks were quacking at an old couple that was throwing pieces of stale bread at them.
- The ducks were quacking and flapping around me loudly, so I thought better of staying in my place.
- I trudged out finally, covered in mud and grime, with a few ducks quacking angrily at me.
- I hope you grow donkey ears and quack like a duck!
- I mean, I'm not gonna quack like a duck for a consequence.
- The kids were in rapture as they heard the animals bleating, mooing, and quacking.
- ‘It's starting to walk like a duck and quack like a duck,’ remarked Engelke.
- Ducks wake up and quack and swim away as we pass on the narrow walks, little packs of 20 or so ducks.
- Professor Cox said: ‘A duck quacks rather quietly, so the sound coming back is at a low level and might not be heard.’
- Yet, in case after case, the chicken always ended up dead, while the duck went happily quacking down the river.
- All the ducks are in a row, quacking in the same direction right now, and it seems, you know, that's great.
- If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, is it still a duck?
- A duck quacks in English, but a French duck says ‘coin coin’.
- Internet pages reveal phone conversations with journalists that consist of MacIsaac quacking like a duck before he hangs up.
- If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's not a swan.
- Nevertheless, if it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's most likely… a duck.
- They sat at the edge of the lake where a bunch of ducks came up and quacked at them.
- We strolled up a steep street, where wild ducks quacked for food outside a shop, and into a quiet garden.
- He may as well have quacked like a duck, because I don't hear a word he's saying.
- 1.1informal (of a person) talk loudly and foolishly.
he was still quacking about vinyl's alleged superiority to CDs Example sentencesExamples - Ever since Ride the Ducks came to town, I've watched those vessels drive by, its frenzied tourists quacking away.
- Some of these remedies have been closer to quack concoctions.
Origin Mid 16th century (as a verb): imitative. ‘If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck.’ was the comment made by the US union leader Walter Reuther about the alleged communists investigated by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s. The quack of a duck, recorded from the mid 16th century, is just an imitation of the bird's characteristic sound. The kind of quack who dishonestly claims to have medical skills was originally a quacksalver, a 17th-century word from Dutch quacken ‘to talk foolishly’ and salf the same word as ‘salve’ (Old English) from a Germanic base meaning ‘clarified butter’.
Rhymes aback, alack, attack, back, black, brack, clack, claque, crack, Dirac, drack, flack, flak, hack, jack, Kazakh, knack, lack, lakh, mac, mach, Nagorno-Karabakh, pack, pitchblack, plaque, rack, sac, sack, shack, shellac, slack, smack, snack, stack, tach, tack, thwack, track, vac, wack, whack, wrack, yak, Zack noun kwakkwæk 1A person who dishonestly claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically medicine. as modifier a quack doctor Example sentencesExamples - There are food faddists, and quacks in the medical field, and persons who oppose fluoridation of water.
- Among the modern evils to fall under Ince's scrutiny was quack alternative medicine.
- Not all ‘alternative’ medicine advocates, however, are quacks.
- But similarly, a new-age quack healer would disagree with a brain surgeon.
- You are drawn to the plight of the bird in the air pump, the sad and frightened girls and the wild eyes of the quack scientist.
- Actually, much of the licensing and regulation is aimed at protecting the public from frauds and quacks.
- It helps if you can whip the populace into a panic like some snake oil salesman, then sell them the quack cure.
- As with most quack cure claims about ‘toxins’, the actual toxins were not named.
- But why wouldn't they believe the claims of the detox quacks?
- I've met very conscientious chiropractors in the past, but the field also seems to attract a number of quacks.
- The new rule is to regularise the practice of traditional Indian systems of medicine and to prevent quacks.
- As we've said before, that's a totally quack claim.
- A lifestyle guru is a modern sort of mountebank, selling quack advice instead of false medicines.
- An alternative medicine quack reckoned he could cure Faulkner of his twitching with a six-month course of treatment.
- My comments on quack medicine have brought on challenges from some readers.
- They are saying they do not want the project to go ahead, full stop, because it is quack medicine.
- It is to help those who have fallen for the lies and deceit of quack medicine and pseudoscience.
- He despised quacks and charlatans because he admired the power of thought and reason so profoundly.
- Depressed by the abundance of absurd claims for quack alternative therapies, he had set up the site as a credulity experiment.
- We should be looking at changing our lifestyles, not stuffing ourselves full of quack medicine.
Synonyms swindler, charlatan, mountebank, confidence trickster, fraud, fraudster, impostor, trickster, racketeer, hoaxer, sharper, rogue, villain, scoundrel informal con man, shark, flimflammer, sharp British informal twister North American informal grifter, bunco artist, chiseller Australian informal shicer, magsman, illywhacker dated confidence man rare defalcator - 1.1British informal A doctor.
he went to see the quack this morning Example sentencesExamples - In India, this could range from private practitioners, to hospitals, nursing homes, polyclinics, alternative medical practitioners, quacks and pharmacists.
Synonyms doctor, physician, medical practitioner, medical man/woman/person Navy surgeon informal doc, medic, medico archaic leech, sawbones
Derivatives adjective Barrett goes on to describe the history of naturopathy and to list some of the quackish practices that have been included in naturopathy. Example sentencesExamples - Obviously, Paul, anyone stupid enough to take your quackish advice deserves their outcomes.
Origin Mid 17th century: abbreviation of earlier quacksalver, from Dutch, probably from obsolete quacken 'prattle' + salf, zalf (see salve1). nounkwækkwak The characteristic harsh sound made by a duck. I heard a quack and saw some ducks huddled together Example sentencesExamples - As we took off, I could hear a faint quack of relief from Archie's new acquaintances.
- One theory is that the sound of the quack tails away, which makes the echoes difficult to hear.
- I'm sorry to say that it's not true about the quack of a duck.
- This is an interesting link for anyone who was wondering about those duck quacks.
- All this takes place in quacks, of course, but the detailed character animation conveys a wide range of emotions.
- These sounds, called clicks, can be produced in such rapid succession as to sound like a buzz or even a duck-like quack.
- I heard a thump and a quack, and guessed that he'd run into the wall (head first, as usual).
- But even from the vague hints he throws out, I think we may rest assured it will not be the last quack of a lame duck.
verbkwækkwak [no object]1(of a duck) make a characteristic harsh sound. ducks quacked from the lake Example sentencesExamples - Yet, in case after case, the chicken always ended up dead, while the duck went happily quacking down the river.
- Professor Cox said: ‘A duck quacks rather quietly, so the sound coming back is at a low level and might not be heard.’
- The ducks were quacking and flapping around me loudly, so I thought better of staying in my place.
- Internet pages reveal phone conversations with journalists that consist of MacIsaac quacking like a duck before he hangs up.
- They sat at the edge of the lake where a bunch of ducks came up and quacked at them.
- If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, is it still a duck?
- I trudged out finally, covered in mud and grime, with a few ducks quacking angrily at me.
- All the ducks are in a row, quacking in the same direction right now, and it seems, you know, that's great.
- He may as well have quacked like a duck, because I don't hear a word he's saying.
- Down near the pond, the ducks were quacking at an old couple that was throwing pieces of stale bread at them.
- The kids were in rapture as they heard the animals bleating, mooing, and quacking.
- I hope you grow donkey ears and quack like a duck!
- Ducks wake up and quack and swim away as we pass on the narrow walks, little packs of 20 or so ducks.
- She will also turn her attention to Irish ducks, which presumably quack with an agreeable brogue.
- I mean, I'm not gonna quack like a duck for a consequence.
- A duck quacks in English, but a French duck says ‘coin coin’.
- If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's not a swan.
- Nevertheless, if it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's most likely… a duck.
- We strolled up a steep street, where wild ducks quacked for food outside a shop, and into a quiet garden.
- ‘It's starting to walk like a duck and quack like a duck,’ remarked Engelke.
- 1.1informal Talk loudly and foolishly.
he was still quacking about vinyl's alleged superiority to CDs Example sentencesExamples - Some of these remedies have been closer to quack concoctions.
- Ever since Ride the Ducks came to town, I've watched those vessels drive by, its frenzied tourists quacking away.
Origin Mid 16th century (as a verb): imitative. nounkwækkwak A person who dishonestly claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically medicine. Example sentencesExamples - It helps if you can whip the populace into a panic like some snake oil salesman, then sell them the quack cure.
- My comments on quack medicine have brought on challenges from some readers.
- I've met very conscientious chiropractors in the past, but the field also seems to attract a number of quacks.
- Depressed by the abundance of absurd claims for quack alternative therapies, he had set up the site as a credulity experiment.
- Not all ‘alternative’ medicine advocates, however, are quacks.
- As with most quack cure claims about ‘toxins’, the actual toxins were not named.
- A lifestyle guru is a modern sort of mountebank, selling quack advice instead of false medicines.
- But similarly, a new-age quack healer would disagree with a brain surgeon.
- It is to help those who have fallen for the lies and deceit of quack medicine and pseudoscience.
- But why wouldn't they believe the claims of the detox quacks?
- As we've said before, that's a totally quack claim.
- Among the modern evils to fall under Ince's scrutiny was quack alternative medicine.
- There are food faddists, and quacks in the medical field, and persons who oppose fluoridation of water.
- Actually, much of the licensing and regulation is aimed at protecting the public from frauds and quacks.
- An alternative medicine quack reckoned he could cure Faulkner of his twitching with a six-month course of treatment.
- The new rule is to regularise the practice of traditional Indian systems of medicine and to prevent quacks.
- We should be looking at changing our lifestyles, not stuffing ourselves full of quack medicine.
- They are saying they do not want the project to go ahead, full stop, because it is quack medicine.
- He despised quacks and charlatans because he admired the power of thought and reason so profoundly.
- You are drawn to the plight of the bird in the air pump, the sad and frightened girls and the wild eyes of the quack scientist.
Synonyms swindler, charlatan, mountebank, confidence trickster, fraud, fraudster, impostor, trickster, racketeer, hoaxer, sharper, rogue, villain, scoundrel
Origin Mid 17th century: abbreviation of earlier quacksalver, from Dutch, probably from obsolete quacken ‘prattle’ + salf, zalf (see salve). |