quack

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quack1 /kwæk/ verb [intransitiveI]

CHBAto make the sound a duck makes 作鴨叫聲，發出〔鴨子般的〕嘎嘎聲

Examples from the Corpus

quack• She began a frantic quacking at the moment that Cyril got his two hands around her.• Young kids used to quack at us as we went past.• The water is full of thrashing, quacking excitement.• He gobbled, be quacked, grunted, swallowed syllables.• About a dozen mallard ducks were sleeping on the sand or quacking in a subdued manner under the dock.• Clearly, enough investors think that Donald Duck will quack on into the twenty-second century!• One wing's shredded, one's flapping, it's quacking up a storm.

quack2 noun [countableC]

1. Cthe sound a duck makes 〔鴨子發出的〕嘎嘎聲

2 MAsomeone who pretends to be a doctor – used to show disapproval 冒牌醫生，江湖醫生〔含貶義〕 → quackery

quacks selling weight-loss drugs

兜售減肥藥的江湖醫生

3 British EnglishBrE informalMN a doctor 醫生

You’d better go and see the quack with that burn.

你最好去找醫生看看那處燒傷。

Examples from the Corpus

quack• You may be considered an elitist or a quack.• But when they open their mouths the same old hacking quacks come out, the same old self-serving screeds.• There is always some magic remedy that will cure it, or some whizz-kid quack with a patent method.• If she mentioned paranoia, Buzz would insist that Elinor was the victim of a lot of quacks.• Larry paid some quack over a thousand dollars to cure his insomnia.• That quack doesn't know anything about treating heart disease.

quack3 adjectiveadj [only before noun]

relating to the activities or medicines of someone who pretends to be a doctor 冒牌醫生(用)的 → quackery

a quack remedy

江湖醫生的療法

Examples from the Corpus

quack• Many of those quack doctors were busy selling their own, often more dangerous diet cures.• a quack remedy for colds

Origin quack1

(1600-1700) From the sound

quack2

1. (1800-1900) → QUACK1

2. (1600-1700) quacksalver “quack” ((16-19 centuries)), from early Dutch, probably from quacken “to quack, talk” + salf “cure”

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