Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • Okänd accent:
Översättning
Substantiv
1.vak
Verb
2.vaklamak

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. The sound made by a duck.
  2. A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
  3. A charlatan.
  4. Carlyle
  5. (slang) A doctor.

Verb

  1. To make a noise like a duck.
  2. To practice or commit quackery.
  3. (obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.

Adjektiv

  1. falsely presented as having medicinal powers.

Exempel

  • Did you hear that duck make a quack?
  • The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.
  • Do you hear the ducks quack?
  • That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!
  • Polly (to security guard, referring to Dr. Feingarten): Are you going to let that shyster in there?
  • After ſome Months, the Quack gets privately to Town, [...]
  • Tis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, [...]
  • - From the motion picture SOB
  • Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical.
  • Dr. Feingarten: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.
  • ‘if we are ourselves valets, there shall ‘exist no hero for us; we shall not know the hero when we see him;’ - we shall take the quack for a hero; and cry, audibly through all ballot-boxes and machinery whatsoever, Thou art he; be thou King over us!
  • To quack of universal cures.
  • Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipquacked
Imperfektquacked
Presensparticipquacking
Pluralquacks
Tredje person singular indicativ presensquacks