quacksalver
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Étymologie modifier
- c. 1570, du moyen néerlandais kwaksalver (« colporteur de pommade »), issu du moyen néerlandais quacken (« se vanter »).
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quacksalver \Prononciation ?\
- (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)
- "Your Grace does not mean Dr. Wilderhead’s powder of projection?"
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Prononciation modifier
- Royaume-Uni (Sud de l'Angleterre) : écouter « quacksalver [Prononciation ?] »
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- Cette page utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : quacksalver. (liste des auteurs et autrices)