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- a person who dishonestly claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically in medicine冒牌医生, 庸医; 江湖骗子, 冒充内行的人：
as modifier quack cures.假医术。
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- Brit. informal a doctor〈英, 非正式〉医生, 郎中。
派生词
quackery
nounquackish
adjective词源
mid 17th cent.: abbreviation of earlier quacksalver, from Dutch， probably from obsolete quacken 'prattle'+salf, zalf （see SALVE1）.