quack

Etymology 1
From, , from , , , , also , , , partly of imitative origin and partly from , from , from , from , , of imitative origin. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The sound made by a duck.

Translations

 * Arabic: بَطْبَطَة, زَبْط
 * Assamese: পেঁক পেঁক
 * Bulgarian: крякане
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kvako
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: gvagg, kvagg
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ყიყინი
 * German: Quaken
 * Greek: πα πα
 * Hungarian: háp,
 * Icelandic: andagagg, guss
 * Ido: ,
 * Irish: vác
 * Italian: qua qua
 * Japanese: ガー ガー, クェッ クェッ, クワッ クワッ
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: ква́к
 * Malay:
 * Maori: keakea, kēkē
 * Norwegian: kvakk
 * Polish: kwaknięcie, ,
 * Portuguese: quac, quá quá, qué, quém
 * Romanian:, mac-mac, , ,
 * Russian:, кря-кря́ ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: mhàg mhàg
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kwak-kwak
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: cạc cạc, cạp cạp
 * Welsh: cwac

Verb

 * 1) To make a noise like a duck.
 * 2)  Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
 * 1)  Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
 * 1)  Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

Translations

 * Arabic: زَبَطَ
 * Egyptian Arabic: يكاكي
 * Assamese: পেঁক পেঁকোৱা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: káchat
 * Danish: rappe
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kvaki
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ყიყინი
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: gagga, gussa
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian: kwek kwek
 * Interlingua: quaccar
 * Italian:, anatrare
 * Japanese: ガーガーと鳴く,  ガヤガヤしゃべる
 * Latin: tetrinnio
 * Macedonian: ква́ка
 * Maori: keakea, kēkē
 * Norwegian: kvekke
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, grasnir, grassitar, gracitar
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: vaklamak

Etymology 2
(see there for more), of origin; ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun

 * 1)   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
 * 2) * 1662, Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to Late Times, Vol. II, by ‘the most Eminent Wits’
 * Tis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, [...]
 * 1) * 1981, S.O.B. (film):
 * Polly (to security guard, referring to Dr. Feingarten): Are you going to let that shyster in there?
 * Dr. Feingarten: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.
 * 1)  Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.
 * 2)  Any doctor.
 * Polly (to security guard, referring to Dr. Feingarten): Are you going to let that shyster in there?
 * Dr. Feingarten: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.
 * 1)  Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.
 * 2)  Any doctor.
 * 1)  Any doctor.
 * 1)  Any doctor.

Synonyms

 * snake-oil ;, ,

Hypernyms

 * See Thesaurus:deceiver,, and

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: kvaksalver
 * Dutch:, kwakzalfster
 * Estonian: imearst, nurgaarst
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ექიმბაში
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: dochtúir bréige
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: やぶ医者, もぐりの医者
 * Kannada:
 * Norman: dgéthisseux
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kvakksalver
 * Nynorsk: kvakksalvar
 * Piedmontese: charlatão
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: saobh-lèigh, feall-lèigh, sgoiteach, sionnal
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: doktor-laway
 * Thai: หมอกำมะลอ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: cwac


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, kwakzalfster,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: charlatán
 * Georgian: შარლატანი, თაღლითი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὀχλαγωγός
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, , falsari, svikari
 * Ido:
 * Irish: potrálaí, soidéalach
 * Italian:, , pataccaro
 * Japanese: ペテン師
 * Kannada:
 * Macedonian: шарлата́н
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sionnal
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: นักต้มตุ๋น, ,
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Ido:
 * Italian: mediconzolo
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Spanish: ,

Verb

 * 1) To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).
 * 2)  To make vain and loud pretensions.
 * 1)  To make vain and loud pretensions.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: шарлатнствам
 * Dutch: kwakzalveren

Adjective

 * 1) Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.

Translations

 * Icelandic: svika-, fals-, skottu-
 * Italian: