Quack meaning

Noun: quack

Pronunciation: ( kwak )

Quack meaning:

1. to make the characteristic cry of a duck
2. An untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice.

Synonyms: mountebank, phony, pretender

Adjective: quack

Quack meaning: Medically very much unqualified

Verb: quack

Quack meaning:

• Utter or make quacking noises
• Act as a medical quack

quacks, quacking, quacked

Quotations: Douglas Adams – If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

 David Nellis – They never quack or make any noise, have a long incubation period and, in the wild, nest and roost in trees. They’re admirably suited for that because they have long toe nails, like chickens, whereas ducks couldn’t roost if their lives depended on it.

Clarence Nash – Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.

James Whitcomb Riley – When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

William Congreve – Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

Henry Louis Mencken – They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

Sample sentences:

1. The duck made a quack noise.
2. A quack doctor can kill without any knife.
3. What doesn’t kill can cure, as many a quack doctor sprucing dubious tonics declared through the centuries.
4. Ducks quack loudly before a rain.
5. Some of them quack, or at least squeak. We left one on a chair outside the US office. They were not very amused.
6. For a two-term president after the November elections in the middle of your second term, things start going downhill and you really do start quacking like a duck.
7. We have not yet found any links but it is clear that the surgeon was a quack running an illegal hospital.
8. The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
9. They never quack or make any noise, have a long incubation period and, in the wild, nest and roost in trees. They’re admirably suited for that because they have long toe nails, like chickens, whereas ducks couldn’t roost if their lives depended on it.
10. Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
11. We need to fix the Bush prescription drug plan that subsidizes big pharmaceutical companies at the expense of senior citizens. We need to stop the oil companies from obscene profiteering, which reduces the standard of living for so many Americans. As usual, this Administration prescribes the same quack medicine for all our ailments: tax breaks for the richest Americans and the largest, most profitable corporations.
12. The only clarion call that George Pataki is hearing these days is the one convincing him he can run for president. If the governor walks like a lame duck and quacks like a lame duck, he is a lame duck. The only one who doesn’t seem to know it is him.
13. The notion that the Austrians were the only bad apples – anyone who says or writes that, that’s embarrassing. And I think given all the stuff that was taken from the Austrians, I think most reasonable, prudent men and women will know if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, it’s a doping duck.
14. The practice of physic is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.
15. Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?
16. You have been fighting but you did not have the expertise. You are like that the unprofessional cook who cooks malakwang an Acholi delicacy, but now we said come here and become better cooks, if you have been quack doctors, we have trained you and made you professional doctors.
17. Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
18. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.