Crossword-Solution: QUACK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Quack | v. i. | To utter a sound like the cry of a duck. |
| Quack | v. i. | To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. |
| Quack | v. i. | To act the part of a quack, or pretender. |
| Quack | n. | The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise. |
| Quack | n. | A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner. |
| Quack | n. | Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan. |
| Quack | a. | Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor. |
We have 105 clues for the answer “QUACK”
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "QUACK"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Dermatological complaint
?
E
?
C
?
Z
?
E
?
M
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZEEMC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
17 +2
New Suggestion for "QUACK"
Related word tools
Sentences with QUACK (5)
She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with “hell following after.” But she never suspected that she was not an angel of healing and the balm of Gilead in disguise, to the suffering neighbors.
Hugo: It hisses and glows like liquid flame; Say, what quack nostrum is this thou'st brewed? Speak out; I am learned in the chemist's lore.
When he straightened again he was occupied with every voice of earth and air around and above him, and the notes of singing hens, exultant cocks, the scream of geese, the quack of ducks, the rasping crescendo of guineas running wild in the woods, the imperial note of Ajax sunning on the ridge pole and echoes from all of them on adjoining and distant farms.
And if but a grave fellow in a velvet jacket, a band, and a black coat, which was the habit those quack-conjurers generally went in, was but seen in the streets the people would follow them in crowds, and ask them questions as they went along.
Should he succeed, you’ll give him his degree; If not, within he will receive no fee! The College YOU, must his pretensions back, Pronounce him Regular, or dub him Quack.
Quotes with QUACK (3)
Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.
It’s not what I think? If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck...” I imply with a shrug “... well then you know what they say.”“Nothing hap―”“Quack!
When did the world begin and how?" I asked a lamb, a goat, a cow:"What's it all about and why?" I asked a hog as he went by:"Where will the whole thing end, and when?" I asked a duck, a goose, a hen: And I copied all the answers too, A quack, a honk, an oink, a moo.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 32 times in crossword archives (1951–2021).