QUACKSALVER

PRONUNCIATION: (KWAK-sal-vuhr)

MEANING: noun: A quack: one pretending to have skills or knowledge, especially in medicine.

ETYMOLOGY: From obsolete Dutch (now kwakzalver), from quack (boast) + salve (ointment). Earliest documented use: 1579.
____________________________


QUARKSALVER - what to serve your sub-atomic - nay, sub-nuclear - particles on

QUACKSALTER - what you use to make Pickled Duck

QUACKSAVER - what you suck on when you hanker after a toroidal fowl-flavored hard candy