quacker
One who quacks.
Adjective
- comparative form of quack: more quack.
- [Y]ou have undertaken to rid all our newspapers and periodicals of untrue, unclean and dishonest advertisements. It seems to me that you have already gained your victory and henceforth have only to guard the fruits of...
Origin
Etymology tree Middle Dutch quacsalven Dutch quacksalverbor. English quacksalverclip. English quack English -er English quacker From quack (adjective) + -er.
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...
- A playing card with the rank of two; a duck.
Origin
Etymology tree English quack Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English quacker From quack (verb) + -er.