Word Meanings - QUACKISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery. Burke.
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- QUACK
1. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck. 2. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras. 3. To act the part of a quack, or pretender. - BOASTFUL
Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n. - QUACKISM
Quackery. Carlyle. - QUACK GRASS
See GRASS - QUACKLE
To suffocate; to choke. - BOASTING
The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young. - CHARACTERIZE
1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the - QUACKSALVER
One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. Burton. - BOASTANCE
Boasting. Chaucer. - BOASTIVE
Presumptuous. - CHARACTERIZATION
The act or process of characterizing. - BOAST
bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of - BOASTINGLY
Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke. - QUACKERY
The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle. - BOASTER
One who boasts; a braggart. - BOASTLESS
Without boasting or ostentation. - QUACKISH
Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery. Burke. - BURKE
1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary - MISCHARACTERIZE
To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.