quack — OAT · Shobdo

quack

noun

1 the man is a quack selling fake medicines:

swindler, charlatan, mountebank, confidence trickster, fraud, fraudster, impostor, trickster, racketeer, hoaxer, sharper, rogue, villain, scoundrel;

informal con man, shark, flimflammer, sharp;

British, informal twister;

North American, informal grifter, bunco artist, chiseller;

Australian, informal shicer, magsman, illywhacker;

dated confidence man;

rare defalcator.

2 get the quack to examine you:

doctor, physician, medical practitioner, medical man/woman/person;

Nautical surgeon;

informal doc, medic, medico;

archaic leech, sawbones.

adjective

a quack doctor |

a quack cancer therapy:

bogus, false, fraudulent, unqualified, not genuine;

spurious, sham, imitation, mock, fake, feigned, simulated, dummy, make-believe, so-called, forged, counterfeit, pseudo, pretended;

informal phoney, pretend;

British, informal cod.