quackery

quackery

English

Etymology

quack +‎ -ery

Noun

quackery (countable and uncountable, plural quackeries)

1. (law, medicine, uncountable) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
2. (countable) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.

Quotations

• 1772: Edmund Burke, ed, The Annual Register

  His intentions were admirable, and his quackery had in view the public good; [...]

Related terms

• quack

Translations

practice

Armenian: շառլատանություն (hy) (šaṙlatanutʿyun) Bulgarian: шарлатанство (bg) n (šarlatanstvo) Chinese: Mandarin: 庸醫的醫術／庸医的医术 (yōngyī de yīshù) Danish: kvaksalveri c Dutch: kwakzalverij (nl) f Finnish: puoskarointi (fi) French: charlatanisme (fr) m German: Quacksalberei (de) f Greek: αγυρτεία (el) f (agyrteía) Icelandic: skottulækningar f pl Italian: frode medica f, ciarlataneria f Japanese: 偽医療 (にせいりょう, niseiryō) Korean: 엉터리 치료 (eongteori chiryo) Latin: pharmacopolia f Macedonian: надрилекарство n (nadrilekarstvo) Norwegian: Bokmål: kvakksalveri n Nynorsk: kvakksalveri n Polish: szarlataństwo n, znachorstwo n, szarlataneria (pl) f Portuguese: curandeirismo m Russian: шарлата́нство (ru) n (šarlatánstvo) Spanish: curandería f, curanderismo m Swedish: kvacksalveri (sv) c Welsh: cwacyddiaeth f, crachfeddygaeth f

instance

Finnish: puoskarointi (fi)

See also

• fraud
• snake oil