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quack | croak |

In lang=en terms the difference between quack and croak

is that quack is a doctor while croak is to die.

As nouns the difference between quack and croak

is that quack is the sound made by a duck while croak is a faint, harsh sound made in the throat.

As verbs the difference between quack and croak

is that quack is to make a noise like a duck while croak is to make a croak.

As an adjective quack

is falsely presented as having medicinal powers.

quack

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) *.

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sound made by a duck.
    • Did you hear that duck make a quack ?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a noise like a duck.
    • The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked .
    Do you hear the ducks quack ?
    Derived terms
    *

    References

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia quack) c 1630, shortening of quacksalver, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
    • That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack !
    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 .
    - From the motion picture
  • * 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, [...]
  • * 1720 : William Derham, Physico-theology
    • After ?ome Months, the Quack gets privately to Town, [...]
  • * 1843 , '', book 2, ch. 8, ''The Electon
    • ‘if we are ourselves valets, there shall ‘exist no hero for us; we shall not know the hero when we see him;’ - we shall take the quack for a hero; and cry, audibly through all ballot-boxes and machinery whatsoever, Thou art he; be thou King over us!
  • A charlatan.
  • Carlyle
    • Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical.
  • (slang) A doctor.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To practice or commit quackery.
  • (obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
  • * Hudibras
    • To quack of universal cures.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • falsely presented as having medicinal powers.
    • Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!

    croak

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
  • The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a croak.
  • To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
  • (of a frog) To make its cry.
  • (of a raven) To make its cry.
  • (slang) To die.
  • (slang) To kill someone or something.
    • He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.
  • To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
  • * Carlyle
    • Marat croaks with reasonableness.