quacksalver
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To Johnson, a flatterer was a "claw-back"; a bad doctor, a "quacksalver."
From Time Magazine Archive
"In other words," said Tressilian, "you were Jack Pudding to a quacksalver."
From Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
The bolster wrapped round his nose and the two ends kissed behind his head, and his forehead resounded, and had he been Goliath, or Julius Caesar, instead of an old quacksalver, down he had gone.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
"Pshaw! he is a quacksalver, and mountebank, and beggar."
From Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott
I have done ill to unbosom myself so far to this poisonous quacksalver.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
