Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: quack
IPA transcription: [kw'æk]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: quack(a)
    Meaning: medically unqualified; "a quack doctor"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: quack
    Meaning: an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: quack
    Meaning: utter quacking noises; "The ducks quacked"
Usage examples
  • quack! he tears them to pieces; so much so that at the end of five minutes there was not one left alive.
  • If real ducks be used as decoy-birds, the males should be tied in one place and the females in another, to induce them to quack.
  • All at once there began to go a sort of bustle among the bulrushes; a wild duck flew up with a quack, another followed, and soon over the whole surface of the marsh a great cloud of birds hung screaming and circling in the air.