quack的词源
英文词源
- quack




- quack: English has two words quack. The one denoting the call of a duck [17] originated of course as an imitation of the sound itself. Quack ‘person claiming to be a doctor’ [17] is short for an earlier quacksalver, which etymologically denoted ‘someone who prattles on or boasts about the efficacy of his remedies’. It was borrowed from early modern Dutch quacksalver, a compound formed from the now obsolete quacken ‘chatter, prattle’ and salf, the Dutch relative of English salve.
- quack (v.)




- "to make a duck sound," 1610s, earlier quake (1520s), variant of quelke (early 14c.), of echoic origin (compare Middle Dutch quacken, Old Church Slavonic kvakati, Latin coaxare "to croak," Greek koax "the croaking of frogs," Hittite akuwakuwash "frog"). Middle English on the quakke (14c.) meant "hoarse, croaking." Related: Quacked; quacking.
- quack (n.1)




- "medical charlatan," 1630s, short for quacksalver (1570s), from obsolete Dutch quacksalver (modern kwakzalver), literally "hawker of salve," from Middle Dutch quacken "to brag, boast," literally "to croak" (see quack (v.)) + salf "salve," salven "to rub with ointment" (see salve (v.)). As an adjective from 1650s. The oldest attested form of the word in this sense in English is as a verb, "to play the quack" (1620s). The Dutch word also is the source of German Quacksalber, Danish kvaksalver, Swedish kvacksalvare.
- quack (n.2)




- duck sound, 1839, from quack (v.).
中文词源
quack(庸医):大吹大擂的江湖郎中
中国历史上有所谓的“江湖郎中”,西方社会中也有此类人物,在英语中称为quacksalver,缩写为quack。quack原本表示“鸭子的嘎嘎叫声”,salve表示“膏药”,salver表示“卖膏药的人”。之所以将江湖郎中称为quacksalver,是因为这些江湖郎中在沿街叫卖膏药时,大吹大擂的样子很像鸭子在嘎嘎叫,所以被形象地称为quacksalver。
quack:[kwæk] 庸医,江湖郎中,鸭子的嘎嘎叫声adj.骗人的,冒牌医生的vi.(鸭子)嘎嘎叫,吹嘘,大声闲聊
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quack:嘎嘎(鸭叫声),江湖郎中
英语有两个quack,一指“嘎嘎”(鸭叫声),这是个拟声词,仿鸭子的叫声构成;一指“冒牌医生”、“江湖骗子”或“江湖郎中”,这是个缩略词,在16世纪原作quacksalver,直接借自早期现代荷兰语quacksalver(现作kwakzalver)。quacksalver意指“庸医”或“江湖医生”,因为此类人总是沿街地叫卖药膏(salve)及“万应药”等假药,并像鸭子那样嘎嘎叫(quack)地吹嘘这些药能治百病来骗钱害人。嗣后quacksalver被缩略为quack。早在1830年quack在美国英语也被称作medicine man。
quack:鸭叫声,江湖郎中,庸医
拟声词,模仿鸭的叫声。词义江湖郎中缩写自quacksalver,狗皮膏药,来自quack,叫卖,salver,油膏。