quack

FREQ #10145

n. 鸭叫声, 冒牌医生, 冒充内行之人 a. 冒牌医生的 v. 嘎嘎叫, 当冒牌医生, 夸大广告

发音

US /kwæk/

词形变化

quacks 复数 quacks 三单 quacking 现在分词 quacked 过去式 quacked 过去分词 more quack 比较级 quacker quackest quacker 比较级 most quack 最高级 quackest 最高级

别名

quaake

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The vocalisation made by a duck.

    嘎

    呱

    Did you hear that duck make a quack?

  2. 1.

    A fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an untrained or poorly trained doctor who uses fraudulent credentials to attract patients

    庸医

    江湖医生

    贬义

    That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!

    1662, Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to Late Times, Vol. II, by ‘the most Eminent Wits’ Tis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, …

    Polly (to security guard, referring to Dr. Feingarten): Are you going to let that shyster in there? Dr. Feingarten: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.

  3. 2.

    Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.

    贬义 比喻
  4. 3.

    Any doctor.

    贬义 幽默 俚语

    That quack wants me to quit smoking, eat less, and start exercising. The nerve!

v.
  1. 1.

    Of a duck, to make its characteristic vocalisation.

    The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.

    Do you hear the ducks quack?

  2. 2.

    To make a sound similar to the quack of a duck.

  3. 3.

    Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

    不及物
  4. 1.

    To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).

  5. 2.

    To make vain and loud pretensions.

    废旧
adj.
  1. 1.

    Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.

    Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!

interj.
  1. 1.

    A duck's quack.

    嘎嘎

词汇关系

名词

上位词 9

doctor dr. sound doc physician charlatan MD medico mountebank
动词

上位词 10

do act carry bear behave conduct utter deport emit acquit
形容词

近义相关 1

unqualified

相关短语

quack like a duck quack grass 偃麦草

词源

From Middle English *quacken, queken (“to croak like a frog; make a noise like a duck, goose, or quail”), from quack, qwacke, quek, queke (“quack”, interjection and noun), also kek, keke, whec-, partly of imitative origin and partly from Middle Dutch quacken (“to croak, quack”), from Old Dutch *kwaken (“to croak, quack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwakōn, from Proto-Germanic *kwakaną, *kwakōną (“to croak”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kwoakje, kwaakje (“to quack”), Middle Low German quaken (“to quack, croak”), German quaken (“to quack, croak”), Danish kvække (“to croak”), Swedish kväka (“to croak, quackle”), Norwegian kvekke (“to croak”), Icelandic kvaka (“to twitter, chirp, quack”).

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