Quacked vs Quackled - What's the difference?
quacked | quackled |
(quack)
To make a noise like a duck.
A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional, especially a doctor of medicine; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine.
* 1662 : Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to Late Times, Vol. II , by ‘the most Eminent Wits’
* 1720 : William Derham, Physico-theology
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. 8, ''The Electon
A charlatan.
Carlyle
(slang) A doctor.
To practice or commit quackery.
(obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
* Hudibras
falsely presented as having medicinal powers.
As verbs the difference between quacked and quackled
is that quacked is past tense of quack while quackled is past tense of quackle.quacked
English
Verb
(head)quack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *.Verb
(en verb)- 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)- 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
- Tis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, [...]
- After ?ome Months, the Quack gets privately to Town, [...]
- ‘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!
- Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- To quack of universal cures.
Adjective
(-)- Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!