quacktitioner

English

Etymology

Blend of quack (“charlatan doctor”) +‎ practitioner

Noun

quacktitioner (plural quacktitioners)

1. (humorous) A medical, or other, practitioner of dubious merit.
   • 1866, Sarah Hammond Palfrey, Herman: Or, Young Knighthood, volume I, page 120:

     “What Mrs. Malaprop might justly call a quacktitioner, perhaps.”

   • 1927, D.S. Jordan, chapter II, in Higher Foolishness, page 66:

     In this business of pluviculture (as I have nicely named it) the operator (aptly called a "quacktitioner") promises showers on a thirsty land.