English-Finnish translations for quack

• kvaak
  Lapselta: Mitä ankat sanovat?
  nowiki>–kvaak!
  Kvaak-kvaak, sanoi kun bugin löysi.
• puoskari
• huijari
  Rehellisenä pidetty kauppias paljastuikin huijariksi.
• kaakatus
  Kanojen kaakatus kuuluu tupaan asti
  Vahtikoiran virkaa hoitaneiden hanhien kaakatus karkotti yöaikaan nurkissa hiiviskelleet
  Naapurin akan jatkuva kaakatus häiritsee minua
• vaakkua

Definition of quack

• The sound#Noun|sound made by a duck#Noun|duck
• To make a noise#Noun|noise like a duck#Noun|duck
• A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional; especially, a doctor#Noun|doctor of medicine who makes false diagnoses or inappropriate treatment; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice#Verb|practice medicine.
• A charlatan
• To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine
• To make vain and loud pretensions
• Falsely present#Verb|presented as having medicinal power#Noun|powers

Examples

• Did you hear that duck make a quack?
• The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked
• Do you hear the ducks quack?
• That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!
• Dont get your hopes up; thats quack medicine!

Related words

• quacksalver
• quackery
• quack quack
• quack remedy
• quack doctor
• if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck