quacksalver

c. 1570, du moyen néerlandais kwaksalver (« colporteur de pommade »), issu du moyen néerlandais quacken (« se vanter »).

quacksalver \Prononciation ?\

1. (Archaïsme) Charlatan.
   • "Your Grace does not mean Dr. Wilderhead’s powder of projection?"
     "Pshaw! he is a quacksalver, and mountebank, and beggar." — (Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak, ch. 38, 1822)
   • "I come before you, ladies and gentlemen, . . . to introduce to you what I call my Elixir Anthropos . . . ."
     . . . [H]e listened intently to the quack-salver’s address, and from time to time his eyes would twinkle and his lips curve in an ironic smile. — (Jeffrey Farnol, The Broad Highway, ch. 34, 1910)
   • One is reminded of a familiar figure of medieval fairs, who survived long in this country [England], and perhaps still survives in remote districts—the quacksalver who hawks his infallible remedies from a wagon. — ("Town Criers," New York Times, p. E8, 2 octobre 1927)

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