charlatan, impostor; person who sells counterfeit drugs from a public place, one who pretends to be a doctor giving phony medical advice
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Mountebank Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
(v. i.)
To play the mountebank.
To play the mountebank.
(n.)
One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
(n.)
Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutAny boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
mountebank
\mount"e*bank\ (?), n. [it. montimbanco, montambanco; montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. see mount, and 4th bank.]
1. one who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank is preferred before an able physician.
2. any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake.
mountebank
\mount"e*bank\, v. t. to cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [r.]
mountebank
\mount"e*bank\, v. i. to play the mountebank.
Noun
1. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
(synonym) charlatan
(hypernym) deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
(hyponym) phrenologist, craniologist
Mountebank Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Mountebank may refer to:
- Charlatan, a swindler
- Monte Bank, a card game
- Three-card Monte, a confidence game
- The Mountebanks, a comic opera by Alfred Cellier and W. S. Gilbert
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