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Charlatan

Charlatan Meaning & Definition
Charlatan Definition And Meaning

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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