quack

Oznaczający (Angielski)

Noun

The sound made by a duck.

Verb

1. To make a noise like a duck.
2. (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.

Intj

A duck's quack.

Verb

1. To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).
2. (obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions.

Adj

Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.

Koncepcje

szarlatan

kwakanie

kwakać

znachor

konował

medyk

kwak

lekarz

kwa

paplać

kwak szarlatan konował

lekarka

oszust

Synonimy

charlatan

mountebank

quacksalver

croak

caw

honk

fake doctor

imposter

empiric

squawk

impersonating

impostor

fraud

gobble

cackle

quack doctor

counterfeit

behave like a charlatan

liar

phony

physician

pretender

rogue

screech

sham

showman

simulator

sorcerer

swindle

swindler

trickster

ululation

untrained

cronk

hollo

shammer

inexperienced doctor

braak

mumper

fraudulent advertising

quackle

of a duck

bellow

gypster

boastful

click

clucking

conjurer

conjuror

counterfeiter

Tłumaczenia

Quacksalber

charlatan

kwakzalver

quaken

charlatan

ciarlatano

şarlatan

bedrieger

κομπογιαννίτης

qua qua

matasanos

cancaner

kwaken

Kurpfuscher

coin-coin

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/kwæk/

Etymologia (Angielski)

Dziedziczone z średnioangielski: *quacken

Pokrewny z fryzyjski saterlandzki: kwoakje

Pokrewny z Middle Low German: quaken

Pokrewny z niemiecki: quaken

Pokrewny z duński: kvække

Pokrewny z szwedzki: kväka

Pokrewny z norweski: kvekke

Pokrewny z islandzki: kvaka

In summary

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”).