Definition of quack

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Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

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Quack Grass :: Quack grass () See Quitch grass.
Merry-andrew :: Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor..
Quacking :: Quacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quac.
Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.
Quackery :: Quackery (n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism..
Charlatanical :: Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
Quackling :: Quackling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quackl.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
Charlatanry :: Charlatanry (n.) Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Empirically :: Empirically (adv.) By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..
Quackism :: Quackism (n.) Quackery.
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Quackeries :: Quackeries (pl. ) of Quacker.
Quackled :: Quackled (imp. & p. p.) of Quackl.
Quack :: Quack (n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan..
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..
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