transcription, транскрипция: [ kwæk ]
( quacks, quacking, quacked)
1.
If you call someone a quack or a quack doctor , you mean that they claim to be skilled in medicine but are not.
I went everywhere for treatment, tried all sorts of quacks.
N-COUNT : oft N n [ disapproval ]
2.
Quack remedies or quack cures are medical treatments that you think are unlikely to work because they are not scientific.
ADJ : ADJ n [ disapproval ]
3.
When a duck quacks , it makes the noise that ducks typically make.
There were ducks quacking on the lawn.
VERB : V
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Quack is also a noun.
Suddenly he heard a quack.
N-COUNT ; SOUND