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🦆 A duck sound 🦆 To make duck sound 🩺 A fake doctor 🩺 To pretend medically 🩺 Not real medically
to quack

to quack

2 9.3
To pretend to be a doctor and mislead patients
  • verb
  • /kwæk/
  • Offensive
translation icon : hacerse pasar por médico
  • Get out, you quack!

Examples

  • Get out, you quack, you murderer!

    The Inventor (2023)

  • I had a heart attack, you quack bastard.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • I am gonna give that quack an earful at my follow-up appointment next Tuesday.

    Dumb and Dumber To (2014)

  • You can quack.

    Fathers and Daughters (2015)

  • "So, anyhow," she went on, "he was one of those quacking Dutchmen."

    Fiction book (1990)

  • You're the one that's infuriating me, you quack!

    The Signal (2014)

  • - I'll quack-foo him!

    Howard the Duck (1986)

  • There'd still be the Afghan quagmire for Ted Kennedy to quack about.

    Blog text (25)

  • SHE NEVER STOPPED QUACKING.

    Alpha and Omega (2010)

  • He was caught trying to quack his way into becoming a certified doctor without any qualifications.

Compounds

quack doctor
  • Offensive
1 7.5

A person who pretends to be a doctor and gives fake medical treatments

quack-quack
  • Baby Talk
8.5

A word children use for a duck that copies its sound

quack grass
  • UK
8.8

A common weed with long stems under the ground that spreads quickly through lawns

How Dishonest

to defraud
  • Formal
40 6.9
to quack
  • Offensive
2 9.3
to pose
172 6.1
to pretend
∞ 2.3

Surface Forms

quack infinitive
quacked past
quacked past participle
quacking present participle
quacks third person singular

Etymology

Quack as a verb comes from the same idea of sellers called quacksalver who shouted about cures. So to quack is to pretend to have medical skill and try to trick people with false cures.