quack

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(quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|year_published=|volume=I|location=London|page=356|passage=Twice a day she took them out to feed in the marshy places, let them waddle and gobble for an hour or two, and then drove them back and shut them up in a small dark shed to digest their meal, whence they gave forth occasionally a melancholy quack.
Of a duck, to make its characteristic vocalisation.
To make a sound similar to the quack of a duck.
Of a bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

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A duck's quack.
(senseid) 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 (defdate)
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.

Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.
(RQ:John Ford Fancies)
Any doctor.
To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).
{{quote-book|en|year=1722|author=Daniel Defoe|chapter=A Journal of the Plague Year|location=London|publisher=E. Nutt|title=et al.|page=36|url=https://archive.org/details/b30518362/page/36/mode/1up
To make vain and loud pretensions.

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{{quote-text|en|year=1684|author=Samuel Butler|title=Hudibras|location=London|section=Part 3, Canto 1, p. 18|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30770.0001.001
Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.
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