About The Word Mountebank
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Mountebank
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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"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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