- oil salesman". The term
quack is a
clipped form of the
archaic term
quacksalver,
derived from Dutch:
kwakzalver a "hawker of salve" or
rather somebody...
-
nitrous oxide led to its
adoption by a
number of less than re****ble
quacksalvers, who
touted it as a cure for consumption, scrofula,
catarrh and other...
- This Dog... Andy TV film 1970 The
Borderers Hewie Heriot Episode: "The
Quacksalver" Here Come the
Double Deckers Nigel Parks Episode: "The Go-Carters" Menace...
-
Comedy pilot for
Series 9 of the
Comedy Playhouse 1970 The
Borderers The
Quacksalver BBC Two
William Peck
Series 2,
Episode 7 1970 This Is Your Life Reg Varney...
-
approach began to
dominate (Descartes
himself described Kircher as "more
quacksalver than savant").
Kircher was
largely neglected until the late 20th century...
-
explicitly remarks on the "worthless goings-on" by "a
whole army of
quacksalvers"
concerning Asia and
especially Tibet. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler...
-
because present in many Indo-European languages.
Quack shortened from
quacksalver, from
kwakzalver (literally "someone who
daubs ointments") Rant from...
-
bridge of memories, the old Pont Neuf of Paris, was the
rendezvous of
quacksalvers and mountebanks.
Booths for the sale of
various articles lined the sides...
- the
early seventeenth century,
quack is a
contracted form of the word "
quacksalver"
which is of
early modern Dutch origin (kwakzalver;
first recorded in...
- in prayer,
looking down 1635 B124 3 The
pancake woman 1635 B129 1 The
quacksalver 1635 B279 6 Jan Uytenbogaert,
preacher of the
Remonstrants [1557-1644]...
