Quack

[kwæk]

解释:

(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'.

(adj.) medically unqualified; 'a quack doctor' .

尤金伲亚整理--From WordNet

解释:

(v. i.) To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

(v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.

(v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender.

(n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.

(n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

(n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.

(a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.

艾琳校对

同义词及近义词:

n. Charlatan, empiric, mountebank, impostor, pretender, HUMBUG.

录入:莉娜

解释:

v.i. to cry like a duck: to boast: to practise as a quack.—v.t. to doctor by quackery.—n. the cry of a duck: a boastful pretender to skill which he does not possess esp. medical skill: a mountebank.—adj. pertaining to quackery: used by quacks.—n. Quack′ery the pretensions or practice of a quack esp. in medicine.—adj. Quack′ish like a quack: boastful: trickish.—n. Quack′ism.—v.i. Quack′le (rare) to quack croak.—n. Quack′salver a quack who deals in salves ointments &c.: a quack generally.—adj. Quack′salving.

手打:斯坦

娱乐性解释:

The Duck family's favorite physician.

手打:列侬

例句:

整理:玛丽

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