Dictionary Entry
quack
quack is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To utter a sound like the cry of a duck. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 22 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
- 2intransitive verb
To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
- 3intransitive verb
To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
- 4noun
The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
- 5noun
A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
- 6noun
Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
- 7adjective
Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
- 8noun
the harsh sound of a duck
- 9noun
an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
- 10verb
act as a medical quack or a charlatan
- 11verb
utter quacking noises
"The ducks quacked"
- 12adjective
medically unqualified
"a quack doctor"
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