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Quack sb.1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1910, rev. 2025. Quack sb.1 Also 7 quacke. [Abbrev. of QUACKSALVER.]

1   1.  An ignorant pretender to medical or surgical skill; one who boasts to have a knowledge of wonderful remedies; an empiric or impostor in medicine. = CHARLATAN 2.

2 1659.  T. Pecke, Parnassi Puerp., 145. Sir Quack his Patient told, nothing could cure The stubborn Feaver.

3 1683.  Kennett, trans. Erasm. on Folly, 47. All these hard named fellows cannot make So great a figure as a single Quacke.

4 1722.  De Foe, Plague (1754), 36. Running after Quacks and Mountebanks … for Medicines and Remedies.

5 1783.  Crabbe, Village, I. A potent quack, long versed in human ills, Who first insults the victim whom he kills.

6 1809.  W. Irving, Knickerb. (1861), 127. He who has once been under the hands of a quack, is for ever after prone to dabble in drugs.

7 1880.  Beale, Slight Ailm., 22. Persons would be easily influenced by what the quack says.

8   2.  transf. One who professes a knowledge or skill concerning subjects of which he is ignorant. = CHARLATAN 3.

9 1638.  Ford, Fancies, III. i. There he sits … The very quack [eds. quaik, quake] of fashions.

10 1710.  Steele, Tatler, No. 195, ¶ 2. Rules for knowing the Quacks in both Professions [Law and Physic].

11 1782.  Cowper, Progr. Err., 474. Church quacks, with passions under no command, Who fill the world with doctrines contraband.

12 1864.  Burton, Scot Abr., I. v. 249. There is scarcely an instance of a lord rector having been a clamorous quack or a canting fanatic.

13   3.  attrib. and Comb., as quack-advertisement, -bill, -bookseller, -doctor, medicine, etc.; also quack-adoring, -ridden adjs.

14 1653.  H. More, Antid. Ath., III. ix. § 2 (Schol.) Principles that no … pert Saucy Quack-Theologist can any way enervate.

15 1695.  trans. Colbatch’s New Lt. Chirurg. put out, Title-p., The Base Imposture of his Quack Medicines.

16 a. 1794.  T. Brown, Table Talk, in Coll. Poems (1705), 130. A Chymist … put out a Quack-Bill.

17 1707.  Hearne, Collect. (O. H. S.), II. 65. Mr. Bolton … now a quack-Physitian in London.

18 1751.  Warburton, Pope’s Wks., IV. 18. The bills of Quack-Doctors and Quack-Booksellers being usually pasted together on the same posts.

19 1785.  Europ. Mag., VIII. Dec., 469/2. A dialogue between the doctor and his clerk satirizes quack advertisements and attestations.

20 1839.  Carlyle, Chartism, v. 138. Europe lay pining,… quack-ridden, hag-ridden.

21 1855.  Browning, Bp. Blougram’s Apol., 366. Quack-nonsense about crowns, And … The vague idea of setting things to rights.

22 1874.  Helps, Soc. Press., ii. 26. The world has become a puffing, advertising, quack-adoring world.

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