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ˈkwækˌsæl vərquack·salver
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quacksalvernoun
One falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc. supposedly having curative powers.
Etymology: c 1570, from kwakzalver, from quacken
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Quacksalvernoun
One who brags of medicines or salves; a medicaster; a charlatan.
Etymology: quack and salve.
Saltimbancoes, quacksalvers and charlatans deceive the vulgar in lower degrees; were Æsop alive, the piazza and the pont neuf could speak their fallacies. Brown.
Many poor country vicars, for want of other means, are driven to their shifts; to turn mountebanks, quacksalvers and empiricks. Robert Burton, on Melancholy.
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quacksalver
Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, qualification or credentials they do not possess; a charlatan or snake oil salesman". The term quack is a clipped form of the archaic term quacksalver, from Dutch: kwakzalver a "hawker of salve". In the Middle Ages the term quack meant "shouting". The quacksalvers sold their wares at markets by shouting to gain attention.Common elements of general quackery include questionable diagnoses using questionable diagnostic tests, as well as untested or refuted treatments, especially for serious diseases such as cancer. Quackery is often described as "health fraud" with the salient characteristic of aggressive promotion.
Webster Dictionary
Quacksalvernoun
one who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank
Etymology: [D. kwakzalver; cf. kwakzalven to quack or boast of one's salves. See Quack, Salve, n.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of quacksalver in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of quacksalver in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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- الدجالArabic
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- quacksalverVietnamese
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