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.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
- intransitive verb. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
- intransitive verb. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
- noun. The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
- noun. A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
- noun. Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
- adjective. Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
- noun. the harsh sound of a duck
- noun. an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
- verb. act as a medical quack or a charlatan
- verb. utter quacking noises
"The ducks quacked"
- adjective. medically unqualified
"a quack doctor"
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