quacktitioner
English
Etymology
Blend of quack (“charlatan doctor”) + practitioner
Noun
quacktitioner (plural quacktitioners)
- (humorous) A medical, or other, practitioner of dubious merit.
- 1866, Sarah Hammond Palfrey, Herman: Or, Young Knighthood, volume I, page 120:
- “What Mrs. Malaprop might justly call a quacktitioner, perhaps.”
- 1927, D.S. Jordan, chapter II, in Higher Foolishness, page 66:
- In this business of pluviculture (as I have nicely named it) the operator (aptly called a "quacktitioner") promises showers on a thirsty land.