[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, […]
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Quacksalver
//ˈkwæksælvə//
Synonyms for "quacksalver" (22 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Strong matches (6)
Related words (11)
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Translations
21 translations across 15 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- kwaksalwer noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Catalan
1 entries- curandero noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Danish
1 entries- kvaksalver noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Dutch
1 entries- kwakzalver noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Finnish
1 entries- puoskari noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
French
3 entries- charlatan noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
- marchand d'orviétan noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
- médicastre noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
German
1 entries- Quacksalber noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Italian
1 entries- ciarlatano noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kvakksalver noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kvakksalvar noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Polish
4 entries- szarlatan noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
- szarlatanka noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
- znachor noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
- znachorka noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Portuguese
1 entries- charlatão noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Russian
1 entries- шарлата́н noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Spanish
2 entries- charlatán noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
- curandero noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Swedish
1 entries- kvacksalvare noun (one falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Wid[ow]. Why, Man's Life is but a Flower, Mr. Jolly, and the Flower withers, and Man withers, as Mr. Knock-down obſerv'd laſt Sabbath-day at Evening Exerciſe: But, Neighbour, you're paſt the Flower, you've grown old as well as I— / Jol[ly]. I'the very Flower; that damn'd Quack-ſalver—
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"My fortune," said the Duke, "is too vast to be hurt by a petty wound; and I have, as thou knowest, a thousand salves in store for the scratches and scars which it sometimes receives in greasing my machinery." / "Your Grace does not mean Dr Wilderhead's powder of projection?" / "Pshaw! he is a quacksalver and mountebank."
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“I come before you, ladies and gentlemen, […] to introduce to you what I call my Elixir Anthropos— […]” […] [H]e listened intently to the quack-salver’s address, and from time to time his eyes would twinkle and his lips curve in an ironic smile.
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