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"QUACKS" is a plural of: quack. |
Date "QUACKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Quacks Queen Anne's quack oculists were William Read (tailor), who was knighted, and Dr. Grant (tinker). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: QUACKSSynonym: Charlatans. (additional references) |
Crosswords: QUACKS |
| Specialty definitions using "QUACKS": Laputa. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Sweetie, if it looks like a dick, and it walks like a dick, and it quacks like a dick, it's a dick! (Nobody's Perfect; writing credit: Robert Tutak) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Wise Quacks (1953) Nasty Quacks (1945) Wise Quacks (1939) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | ... a little boy treated for Banti's disease by Arab quacks ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Paul Almasy.. |  | Radical Quacks giving a New Constitution to John Bull.! / Designed by an Amateur Etch by G Cruikshank. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | State Quacks Or The Desperate Condition Of The Wither'd Sisters / W. Heath. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Dr. Arther & his man Bob giving John Bull a Bolus : Quacks from Church St. / [William Heath]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Richard Cardinal Cushing. | When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | On he speeds, never wasting a wordlet, Though thoughtlets cling, closely as wax, To the spot where the beautiful birdlet So quietly quacks. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Those plants of whose greenness withered we make herb tea for the sick serve but a humble use, and are most employed by quacks. |
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| "QUACKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 92.59% of the time. "QUACKS" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 92.59% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 7.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "QUACKS": alarm-quacks. | |
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| Language | Translations for "QUACKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | quakt (croaks). (various references) | ||||
Italian | ciarlatani. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | acksquay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "QUACKS": quacksalver, quacksalvers. (additional references) | |
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"QUACKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: quacka, quacke, quacko, quacku, quacky, quakka, quask, Quass, quax, quck, quicks, Quickso, quock, quox, squack. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "QUACKS" (pronounced kwa"ks) |
| 4 | -w a" k s | wacks, wax, whacks. |
| 3 | -a" k s | antitax, attacks, ax, axe, backs, blacks, cracks, fax, flax, hacks, jacks, knacks, lacks, lax, macks, Macs, Max, packs, pacs, Pax, plaques, pretax, racks, rax, relax, sacks, sacs, sax, shacks, slacks, smacks, snacks, stacks, tacks, tax, tracks. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-k-q-s-u" | |
-1 letter: quack. | |
-2 letters: auks, cask, cusk, sack, skua, suck. | |
-3 letters: ask, auk, kas, qua, sac, sau, ska, suq. | |
-4 letters: as, ka, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-k-q-s-u" | |
+2 letters: quackish, quackism. | |
+3 letters: quackisms, quicksand. | |
+4 letters: quackeries, quicksands, quillbacks. | |
+5 letters: microquakes, quacksalver. | |
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