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quacky

adj

Etymology

From quack + -y.

  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 quacky — “quack + y”

Definitions

  1. That resembles the quack of a duck.

    • With progressive prostration (which is more marked in young infants) and with a tone to the cry which is a sort of a thin, crowing, quacky sound, points to the existence of retropharyngeal lymphadenitis.

  2. Fraudulent

    Fraudulent; characterised by or using the methods of quackery.

    • The Doctor says that some of the quackiest of the quacks are in the army.
    • 1998 September 9, Joni Mitchell, interview quoted in 2003, Alan Hecht, Polio, page 72, I know this sounds real quacky but they did some mysterious good to the problem and I feel fine.

  3. Infested with quackgrass.

    • 1859, The Cultivator, Volume 7, 3rd Series, page 54, After the first hoeing of a quacky crop, it is often well to go over it lightly in the middle of a hot day, just skimming the surface of the soil, and cutting off the young grass.
    • Always work quacky land when it is driest.
    • 1914, New York (State) Department of Agriculture, Annual Report, Volume 1, Part 2, page 544, When would you advise plowing sandy soil that is quacky for beans?

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