About The Word Charlatan
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What's The Definition Of Charlatan?
[n] a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
Synonyms | Synonyms for Charlatan: mountebank Related Terms | Find terms related to Charlatan: blagueur | bluff | bluffer | charlatanic | charlatanish | fake | faker | fourflusher | fraud | horse doctor | humbug | impersonator | impostor | malingerer | medicaster | medicine man | medicine monger | mountebank | phony | poser | poseur | pretender | quack | quackish | quacksalver | quackster | ringer | saltimbanco | sham | shammer See Also | beguiler | cheat | cheater | craniologist | deceiver | phrenologist | quack | slicker | trickster Charlatan In Webster's Dictionary \Char"la*tan\, n. [F. charlatan, fr. It. ciarlatano,
fr. ciarlare to chartter, prate; of imitative origin; cf. It.
zirlare to whistle like a thrush.]
One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable
pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.
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