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phony
English
Alternative forms
- phoney (British)
Etymology
Perhaps an alteration of fawney (“gilt brass ring used by swindlers”) (1781), from Irish fáinne (“ring”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fo?ni/
- Rhymes: -??ni
Adjective
phony (comparative phonier, superlative phoniest)
- (informal) Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
Synonyms
- (fraudulent): bogus, counterfeit, fake
- See also Thesaurus:fake
Antonyms
- authentic
- genuine
Derived terms
- phoniness
- phoneyness
- phony as a three-dollar bill
Translations
Noun
phony (plural phonies)
- (informal) A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own.
- (informal) A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold.
- (informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.
- 2013, John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, Crime Classification Manual (page 131)
- One name was a phony, but the other was the true name. The clerk remembered the man who had filed the tags since he acquired two sets of plates with different names.
- 2013, John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, Crime Classification Manual (page 131)
Synonyms
- (faker): dissembler, pretender, fake, faker
Derived terms
- phony up, phoney up
- Phony War, Phoney War
Translations
Verb
phony (third-person singular simple present phonies, present participle phonying, simple past and past participle phonied)
- To fake.
Anagrams
- hypno-
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quack
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwæk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1
From Middle English *quacken, queken (“to croak like a frog; make a noise like a duck, goose, or quail”), from quack, qwacke, quek, queke (“quack”, interjection and noun), also kek, keke, whec-, partly of imitative origin and partly from Middle Dutch quacken (“to croak, quack”), from Old Dutch *kwaken (“to croak, quack”), from Proto-Germanic *kwakan?, *kwak?n? (“to croak”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kwoakje, kwaakje (“to quack”), Middle Low German quaken (“to quack, croak”), German quaken (“to quack, croak”), Danish kvække (“to croak”), Swedish kväka (“to croak, quackle”), Norwegian kvekke (“to croak”), Icelandic kvaka (“to twitter, chirp, quack”).
Alternative forms
- quaake (obsolete)
Noun
quack (plural quacks)
- The sound made by a duck.
Translations
Verb
quack (third-person singular simple present quacks, present participle quacking, simple past and past participle quacked)
- To make a noise like a duck.
Derived terms
Translations
References
Etymology 2
Clipping of quacksalver, from Middle Dutch kwaksalver (“hawker of salve”) (modern Dutch kwakzalver), from quacken (“to brag, boast; to croak”). Ultimately related to etymology one, above.
Noun
quack (plural quacks)
- A fraudulent healer or incompetent professional; especially, a doctor of medicine who makes false diagnoses or inappropriate treatment; an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine. [from c. 1630]
- 1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- The very quack of fashions, the very he that / Wears a stiletto on his chin.
- 1662, Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to Late Times, Vol. II, by ‘the most Eminent Wits’
- Tis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, [...]
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 8, The Electon
- ‘if we are ourselves valets, there shall ‘exist no hero for us; we shall not know the hero when we see him;’ - we shall take the quack for a hero; and cry, audibly through all ballot-boxes and machinery whatsoever, Thou art he; be thou King over us!
- 1981, S.O.B. (film):
- Polly (to security guard, referring to Dr. Feingarten): Are you going to let that shyster in there?
- Dr. Feingarten: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.
- 1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
- A charlatan.
- (slang) A doctor.
Synonyms
- medicaster (dated, now chiefly literary)
- quacksalver
- See also Thesaurus:deceiver
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
quack (third-person singular simple present quacks, present participle quacking, simple past and past participle quacked)
- To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine).
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 36,[1]
- […] it is incredible, and scarce to be imagin’d, how the Posts of Houses, and Corners of Streets were plaster’d over with Doctors Bills, and Papers of ignorant Fellows; quacking and tampering in Physick, and inviting the People to come to them for Remedies;
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 36,[1]
- (obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions.
- Synonym: boast
- 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, Part 3, Canto 1, p. 18,[2]
- Seek out for Plants with Signatures
- To Quack of Universal Cures
Translations
Adjective
quack (comparative more quack or quacker, superlative most quack or quackest) (quacker and quackest are rare, and probably used humorously)
- Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.
Translations
Further reading
- quack (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- quackery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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