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quackish

adj

Etymology

From quack + -ish.

  1. derived from *kwakaną✻
  2. derived from *kwakōn✻
  3. derived from *kwaken✻ — “to croak, quack”
  4. derived from quacken — “to croak, quack”
  5. inherited from *quacken✻
  6. suffixed as quackish — “quack + ish”

Definitions

  1. Like a quack (fraudulent doctor), or characteristic of quackery.

    • The frothy orator, who busked his tales In quackish pomp of noisy words

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quackish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA