Clues for the word "QUACK"
We've had 25 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 41 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on February 20, 2025.
Definition of quack
- v. i. - To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
- v. i. - To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
- v. i. - To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
- n. - The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
- n. - A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
- n. - Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
- a. - Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
Referring Clues
- Unlicensed physician
- Doc who's a crock
- Mountebank
- Do like Donald
- Snake oil salesman
- Nostrum purveyor
- Malpractice suit target
- Sound from the pond
- Dubious doctor
- One selling bottles of sugar and arsenic, say
- Charlatan
- Farmyard sound
- Drake's comment
- Mock doc
- Mallard's call
- Phony doc
- Duck's comment
- Doctor has to sound like a duck
- Charlatan - cry of duck
- Pseudo doctor
- Duck's call
- Sound made by duck that's fake
- Duck sound
- Disreputable doctor
- Sham sawbones
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - February 20, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 02, 2024
- Your Life Choices - August 01, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 31, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - June 28, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - April 19, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - March 07, 2023
- Your Life Choices - January 11, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 28, 2022
- Your Life Choices - September 23, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - October 02, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 31, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - August 20, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - August 13, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - February 19, 2017
- New York Times - January 09, 2017
- USA Today - October 19, 2016
- New York Times - August 10, 2016
- Guardian Quick - September 18, 2014
- LA Times - September 07, 2014
- Washington Post - August 28, 2014
- Guardian Quick - May 12, 2013
- LA Times - November 06, 2011
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 04, 2011
- Chicago Reader - August 13, 2010
- Guardian Quick - May 14, 2010
- Washington Post - January 24, 2010
- Washington Post - November 07, 2009
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 06, 2009
- And in 11 more crossword puzzles...