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Quacker vs Quackery - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between quacker and quackery

is that quacker is one who quacks while quackery is the practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.

quacker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who quacks.
  • *1901–1947 : Benjamin Albert Botkin, A Treasury of New England Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the Yankee People
  • *:The decoy was what the townsman who had lent it to him called a "first-class quacker ." The decoy quacked and swam about [...]
  • (slang) A playing card with the rank of two; a duck.

    • References

    *Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

    quackery

    English

    Noun

  • (legal, medicine, uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
  • (countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.

    • Quotations

    * 1772 : Edmund Burke, ed, The Annual Register *: His intentions were admirable, and his quackery had in view the public good; [...]

    Related terms

    * quack

    See also

    * fraud * snake oil