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quacking


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Quack  \Quack\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Qvacked};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Quacking}.]  [Of  imitative  origin;  cf  D.  kwaken,  G.  quacken, 
  quaken,  Icel.  kvaka  to  twitter.] 
  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. 




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