Definition of quacked in English

Part of speech

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Noun Plural: quacks
quack - an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
		physician, doc, dr., medico, doctor, md children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office; "the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor"
		charlatan, mountebank a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
quack - the harsh sound of a duck
		sound the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause; "the sound of rain on the roof"; "the beautiful sound of music"
Verb quacks, quacking, quacked
quack - act as a medical quack or a charlatan
		behave, act, do behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
		practice of medicine, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
quack - utter quacking noises; "The ducks quacked"
		let loose, emit, let out, utter expel (gases or odors)
Adjective
quack - medically unqualified; "a quack doctor"

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quack (Noun)
The sound made by a duck.
quack (Noun)
A fraudulent healer or incompetent doctor of medicine, an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
quack (Noun)
A charlatan.
quack (Noun)
Carlyle.
quack (Noun)
A doctor.
quack (Verb)
To make a noise like a duck.
quack (Verb)
To practice or commit quackery.
quack (Verb)
To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
quack (Adjective)
Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.

quack (v. i.)
To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
quack (v. i.)
To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
quack (v. i.)
To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
quack (n.)
The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
quack (n.)
A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
quack (n.)
Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
quack (a.)
Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

quack
To utter the sound of a duck.
quack
The sound made by a duck.
quack
Someone who practices medicine without proper qualifications and/or promotes ineffective medical treatments.
quack
To practice medicine without proper qualifications and/or promote ineffective medical treatments.

quack
kwak, v.i. to cry like a duck: to boast: to practise as a quack.—v.t. to doctor by quackery.—n. the cry of a duck: a boastful pretender to skill which he does not possess, esp. medical skill: a mountebank.—adj. pertaining to quackery: used by quacks.—n. Quack′ery, the pretensions or practice of a quack, esp. in medicine.—adj. Quack′ish, like a quack: boastful: trickish.—n. Quack′ism.—v.i. Quack′le (rare), to quack, croak.—n. Quack′salver, a quack who deals in salves, ointments, &c.: a quack generally.—adj. Quack′salving. [Imit.; cf. Ger. quaken, Dut. kwaken, Gr. koax, a croak.]

quack
An ungraduated ignorant pretender to skill in physic, a vender of nostrums.

Quack is the sound a duck makes.

Quack is also the name for someone who is a phony. One way that people use this word is a "quack doctor". A quack doctor sells people bad medicine that doesn't make people feel better.