Word Meanings - QUACKISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery. Burke.

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• QUACK
  1. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck. 2. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras. 3. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• QUACKISM
  Quackery. Carlyle.
• QUACK GRASS
  See GRASS
• QUACKLE
  To suffocate; to choke.
• BOASTING
  The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• QUACKSALVER
  One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. Burton.
• BOASTANCE
  Boasting. Chaucer.
• BOASTIVE
  Presumptuous.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• BOAST
  bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of
• BOASTINGLY
  Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.
• QUACKERY
  The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.
• BOASTER
  One who boasts; a braggart.
• BOASTLESS
  Without boasting or ostentation.
• QUACKISH
  Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery. Burke.
• BURKE
  1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.