| quacksalver | One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. Origin: D. Kwakzalver; cf. Kwakzalven to quack or boast of one's salves. See Quack, Salve. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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