quacktitioner

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noun

A medical, or other, practitioner of dubious merit.

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Meanings

nounquacktitioner (plural quacktitioners)

plural quacktitioners

  1. humorousA medical, or other, practitioner of dubious merit.

    “What Mrs. Malaprop might justly call a quacktitioner, perhaps.”

    1866, Sarah Hammond Palfrey, Herman: Or, Young Knighthood, volume I, page 120
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    In this business of pluviculture (as I have nicely named it) the operator (aptly called a "quacktitioner") promises showers on a thirsty land.

    1927, D.S. Jordan, chapter II, in Higher Foolishness, page 66

Origin

Blend of quack (“charlatan doctor”) + practitioner.

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