adjective · being a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to skills, especially medical skills: He's just a quack psychologist who complicates everyone's problems.

quack in American English 2 · 1. a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill · 2. a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to skill, knowledge ...

A scam-artist. A person who makes up bullshit medical products or advice or prescriptions that don't work. A snake oil salesman.

7 окт. 2024 г. · Synonyms · charlatan · fake · faker · fakir · fraud · hoaxer · humbug · impostor · imposter · mountebank · phony · phoney · pretender ...

There are good quacks and bad quacks. A good quack is the sound a duck makes. A bad quack is someone pretending to be a doctor.

9 мая 2023 г. · A “quack” is a con man, a crook, one who poses as a doctor but has zero credentials. The “quack” is involved in some kind of swindle.

(derogatory) A fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an ...

​(informal, disapproving) a person who dishonestly claims to have medical knowledge or skills. quack doctors; I've got a check-up with the quack (= the ...

disapproving : an unskillful doctor or a person who falsely claims to have medical skills. That quack almost killed me by prescribing the wrong medication.