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quack-salver

quack-salver is the alternative form of quacksalver.

Meaning of quacksalver

Noun

quacksalver (plural quacksalvers)

  1. (archaic) One falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc., supposedly having curative powers; a quack.
    • [F]ree me from thoſe outward encumbrances of cares that over-whelme mee, and let this paraliticke quackſalver fill ten thouſand tunnes with ſcelerata ſinapis, ſhrewiſh ſnappiſh muſtard, as Plautus calls it, […]1596, Thomas Nashe, Haue vvith You to Saffron-vvalden. Or, Gabriell Harueys Hunt is vp: Containing a Full Answere to the Eldest Sonne of the Halter-maker. Or, Nashe His Confutation of the Sinfull...
    Synonyms:
    medicaster, quack

Forms of quack-salver

pluralquack-salvers

Questions about quack-salver

What is quack-salver the alternative form of?
Quack-salver is the alternative form of quacksalver.

Words near quack-salver in the dictionary

  1. quack grass
  2. quack like a duck
  3. quack-breech
  4. quack-breeches
  5. quack-grass
  6. quack-salver
  7. quack-salvers
  8. quackademic
  9. quackademics
  10. quackbuster
  11. quackbusters

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