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quacktitioner

noun

Etymology

Blend of quack (“charlatan doctor”) + practitioner.

Definitions

  1. A medical, or other, practitioner of dubious merit.

    • “What Mrs. Malaprop might justly call a quacktitioner, perhaps.”
    • In this business of pluviculture (as I have nicely named it) the operator (aptly called a "quacktitioner") promises showers on a thirsty land.

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