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Definition: QUACKSALVER |
QUACKSALVERNoun1. One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. |
Date "QUACKSALVER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Quacksalver \Quack"sal*ver\, noun. [from Dutch expression kwakzalver; compare to kwakzalven to quack or boast of one's salves. See Quack, Salve, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deceiver | Quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy; man of straw. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "QUACKSALVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | xherah (bone setter, quack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шарлатанин (charlatan, humbug, mountebank, operator, phoney, phony, quack, shyster), врач (fortune teller, leech, quack), знахар (charlatan, medicaster, quack, witch doctor), баяч (quack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | šarlatán (charlatan, fake, humbug, quack, sciolist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τσαρλατάνοσ (charlatan, mountebank), ψευτογιατρόσ (quack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kuruzsló (charlatan, healer, medicine man, pow-wow, quack, quack doctor, water doctor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acksalverquay impostor (charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, hocus, humbug, imposter, impostor, juggler, phoney, phony, quack, sham, shammer, shyster, swindler, trickster), grasnido de pato (quack), curandeiro (charlatan, curium, imposter, medicaster, quack, witchdoctor), charlatão (charlatan, empiric, gabbler, imposter, medicaster, mountebank, pettifogger, quack, sciolist). (various references) знахарь (charlatan, doctor, medicaster, medicine man, medicineman, mountebank, powwow, quack, voodoo, voodoo doctor, voodoo priest, witch doctor, witch-doctor). (various references) kreketanje (croak). (various references) charlatán (babbler, charlatan, chatterbox, gasbag, humbug, mountebank, Prater, prattler, quack, windbag). (various references) kvacksalver. (various references) หมอเถื่อน (quack), คนล่อลวง. (various references) крякання (caw, quack). (various references) lang băm (medicaster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "QUACKSALVER": quacksalvers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "QUACKSALVER" (pronounced 'Quack"sal*ver'): Cadaver, Caliver, Clover, Marver, Meniver, Minever, miniver, moreover, Papaver, Passover, Rep-silver, Semidemiquaver, semiquaver, solver, Stiver, stover, Up-over, Vetiver, Walk-over, Weever. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-k-l-q-r-s-u-v" | |
-3 letters: caesural, caravels, caulkers, claquers, lacquers, vascular. | |
-4 letters: caesura, calkers, calques, caravel, carvels, caulker, claquer, claques, clavers, culvers, lackers, lacquer, lekvars, quakers, quavers, recusal, ruckles, scalare, sculker, secular, slacker, suckler, valuers, vascula. | |
-5 letters: acarus, akelas, arecas, avulse, caesar, calesa, calker, calque, calves, carles, carvel, carves, casque, casual, caules, caulks, causal, causer, cavers, cesura, claque. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-k-l-q-r-s-u-v" | |
+1 letter: quacksalvers. | |
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