quacktitioner

noun

noun

Etymology Blend of quack (“charlatan doctor”) + practitioner.

Humorous A medical, or other, practitioner of dubious merit.

“What Mrs. Malaprop might justly call a quacktitioner, perhaps.”1866, Sarah Hammond Palfrey, Herman: Or, Young Knighthood, volume I, page 120:
In this business of pluviculture (as I have nicely named it) the operator (aptly called a "quacktitioner") promises showers on a thirsty land.1927, D.S. Jordan, chapter II, in Higher Foolishness, page 66:

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