Definitions For Medicaster

Noun

MEDICASTER (plural MEDICASTERs) (dated, now, chiefly, literary) A quack#adjective, quack doctor#noun, doctor; someone who pretend#verb, pretends to have medical knowledge.

Synonyms

quack, id=doctor quacksalver {{qualifier, archaic}}

Translations

French: médicastre, m, meige, m Italian: medicastro, m Latin: medicaster, m Latvian: pūšļotājs, m Spanish: medicastro, m

Etymology

doctor#noun, doctor, or medicaster, hawk#verb, hawking remedy#noun, remedies on the streets of london, an engraving#noun, engraving by {{w, Edward Linley Sambourne}} from w:punch (magazine), punch (11 November 1893)]] From {{der, en, fr, médicastre}} or {{der, en, it, medicastro}}, from {{der, en, LL., medicaster}}, from {{der, en, la, medicus, , a doctor, a physician; a surgeon}} + -aster, , suffix forming appendix:glossary#noun, nouns expressing incomplete resemblance, which are thus usually pejorative.

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