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Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Ääntäminen
US- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: /kwæk/
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- The sound made by a duck.
- (derogatory) A fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an untrained or poorly trained doctor who uses fraudulent credentials to attract patients
- (figuratively, derogatory) Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.
- (humorous slang, mildly derogatory) Any doctor.
Verbi
- To make a noise like a duck.
- To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions.
Huudahdus
- A duck's quack.
Adjektiivi
Esimerkit
- Did you hear that duck make a quack?
- The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.
- Do you hear the ducks quack?
- 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?
- After ſome Months, the Quack gets privately to Town, [...]
- Tis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, [...]
- - From the motion picture SOB
- Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical.
- Dr. Feingarten: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.
- ‘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!
- To quack of universal cures.
- Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | quacked |
| Imperfekti | quacked |
| Partisiipin preesens | quacking |
| Monikko | quacks |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | quacks |