quack+doctor
11quack — 1. noun /kwæk/ a) The sound made by a duck. Did you hear that duck make a quack? b) A fraudulent healer or incompetent doctor of medicine, an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice …
12doctor — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. physician, surgeon; learned man, sage. See remedy. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A medical practitioner] Syn. Doctor of Medicine, M.D., physician, surgeon, family doctor, country doctor, medical attendant,… …
13quack — quack1 [ kwæk ] noun count 1. ) INFORMAL a doctor who is not very good, or someone who cheats people by pretending to be a doctor 2. ) the sound that a DUCK makes quack quack 2 [ kwæk ] verb intransitive to make the sound that a DUCK makes …
14quack — [kwæk] noun [C] I 1) the sound that a DUCK makes 2) informal a bad doctor, or someone who pretends to be a doctor II verb [I] quack [kwæk] to make the sound that a DUCK makes …
15quack — English has two words quack. The one denoting the call of a duck [17] originated of course as an imitation of the sound itself. Quack ‘person claiming to be a doctor’ [17] is short for an earlier quacksalver, which etymologically denoted ‘someone …
16quack — English has two words quack. The one denoting the call of a duck [17] originated of course as an imitation of the sound itself. Quack ‘person claiming to be a doctor’ [17] is short for an earlier quacksalver, which etymologically denoted ‘someone …
17quack — 1. v. & n. n. the harsh sound made by ducks. v.intr. 1 utter this sound. 2 colloq. talk loudly and foolishly. Etymology: imit.: cf. Du. kwakken, G quacken croak, quack 2. n. 1 a an unqualified practiser of medicine. b (attrib.) of or… …
18quack — n a doctor. This usually lightheartedly pejorative term originated in the 17th century when it referred to a peddler of spurious cures. It is a shortening of quacksalver which is composed of quack (give one s verbal patter ) and salve (save,… …
19Doctor Slop — Dr Slop is a choleric physician and man midwife in Laurence Sterne s novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759). The doctor is summoned by Tristram Shandy s father to attend his son s imminent birth. Slop makes his first… …
20doctor — 1. noun Claudio went to see a doctor Syn: physician, MD, medical practitioner, clinician; general practitioner, GP; medic, intern; informal doc, medico, quack, sawbones 2. verb 1) informal he doctored their wounds Syn …
