quackery

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈkwækəɹi/|/ˈkwækɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud. uncountable
    — When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.
  2. An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine. countable
    — […] the manifold and serpentine wiles and evasions, shufflings and fencings, deceits and dissimulations, he had practised —the bunkums and the quackeries, […]

词形变化

quackeries plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antiquackery
相关词
quack fraud snake oil

词源

Etymology tree
Middle Dutch quacsalven
Dutch quacksalverbor.
English quacksalverclip.
English quack
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English quackery
From quack + -ery.
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