Quacksalvery vs Quacksalver - What's the difference?
quacksalvery | quacksalver | Derived terms |
Quacksalvery has no English definition.
(archaic) One falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc. supposedly having curative powers.
* 1822 , , Peveril of the Peak , ch. 38:
* 1910 , , The Broad Highway , ch 34:
* 1927 , "Town Criers," New York Times , 2 Oct., p. E8:
Quacksalver is a derived term of quacksalvery.
Quacksalvery is often a misspelling of quacksalver.
Quacksalvery has no English definition.
As a noun quacksalver is
one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc. supposedly having curative powers.quacksalvery
Not English
Quacksalvery has no English definition. It may be misspelled.quacksalver
English
Alternative forms
* quack-salverNoun
(en noun)- "Your Grace does not mean Dr. Wilderhead's powder of projection?"
- "Pshaw! he is a quacksalver , and mountebank, and beggar."
- "I come before you, ladies and gentlemen, . . . to introduce to you what I call my Elixir Anthropos . . . ."
- . . . [H]e listened intently to the quack-salver's address, and from time to time his eyes would twinkle and his lips curve in an ironic smile.
- One is reminded of a familiar figure of medieval fairs, who survived long in this country [England], and perhaps still survives in remote districts—the quacksalver who hawks his infallible remedies from a wagon.