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Mountebank

Mountebank Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Mountebank? [n] a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes Synonyms \| Synonyms for Mountebank: charlatan Related Terms \| Find terms related to Mountebank: artist \| artiste \| belly dancer \| blagueur \| bluff \| bluffer \| burlesque queen \| charlatan \| cheat \| chorine \| chorus boy \| chorus girl \| con man \| confidence man \| conjurer \| coryphee \| dancer \| dancing girl \| defrauder \| ecdysiast \| entertainer \| exotic dancer \| fake \| faker \| female impersonator \| flimflammer \| fourflusher \| fraud \| geisha \| geisha girl \| guisard \| guiser \| gyp \| hoofer \| humbug \| impersonator \| impostor \| magician \| malingerer \| mummer \| musician \| nautch girl \| peeler \| performer \| phony \| poser \| poseur \| prestidigitator \| pretender \| public entertainer \| quack \| quacksalver \| quackster \| ringer \| saltimbanco \| sham \| shammer \| sharper \| show girl \| singer \| stripper \| stripteaser \| stripteuse \| vaudevillian \| vaudevillist See Also \| beguiler \| cheat \| cheater \| craniologist \| deceiver \| phrenologist \| quack \| slicker \| trickster Mountebank In Webster's Dictionary \Mount"ebank\, 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. --Whitlock. 2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. --Arbuthnot. \Mount"ebank\, v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] --Shak. \Mount"e*bank\, v. i. To play the mountebank.

Mountebank Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mountebank?

[n] a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mountebank: charlatan

Mountebank In Webster's Dictionary

\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.                            --Whitlock.

2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

         Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will
         undertake.                            --Arbuthnot.


\Mount"e*bank\, v. t.
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.]
--Shak.


\Mount"e*bank\, v. i.
To play the mountebank.

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