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Quackophony

Added to Urban Dictionary and accepted -

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=quackophony

What happens when a bunch of quacks call other quacks quacks. The noise that results from a bunch of charlatans, delusionals, new agers or alt.medicine folks labelling others of the same ilk frauds and confidence tricksters, unlike themselves because they are the genuine and guaranteed real thing.

Feel free to vote it up and add derivative words. I think it deserves to become part of the vernacular.

Tags: colloquialism, jargon, quackophany, slang, urban dictionary

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Permalink Reply by Jaume on December 12, 2009 at 7:15am

With quacks growing in numbers and especially visibility, I think it deserves to make its way into the OED and Webster.

Permalink Reply by Ida on December 12, 2009 at 7:45am

Indeed

Permalink Reply by Trance Gemini on December 12, 2009 at 7:55am

Quackagogue.

One who will preach a Quackology which he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots aka Quacks.

(A paraphrase of the following quote defining Demagogues: "one who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." --Joseph Joubert)

Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on December 12, 2009 at 8:07am

Would the "men he knows to be idiots" be more like Quacklings, since it's the quacks (and the quackagogues) who are doing the purveying?

Permalink Reply by Trance Gemini on December 12, 2009 at 8:17am

Hmmm. Maybe both?

A Quackagogue would preach to Quacks but I'm assuming that by Quackling you're referring to aspiring Quacks?

If that's the case then we could revise it as follows:

Quackagogue.

One who will preach a Quackology which he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots aka Quacks, Quacklings.

I'm assuming they would both be included in Quackdom?

What do you think?

Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on December 12, 2009 at 8:33am

I think if we continue, we'll both be quacking up!

Permalink Reply by Trance Gemini on December 12, 2009 at 9:03am

I'm sooooo disappointed.

I was hoping to discuss the Quacktrine.... ;-)

Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on December 12, 2009 at 9:11am

Could we quantify it with Quackometry?

Permalink Reply by Trance Gemini on December 12, 2009 at 10:40am

Sure if you don't mind adding on a little Quackulus...

Permalink Reply by Jaume on December 12, 2009 at 8:37am

Quackagogue.

I like this one - if only for the reason that gogue if French slang for shithouse.

Permalink Reply by Trance Gemini on December 12, 2009 at 9:03am

LMAO! I had no idea :-)