Mountebank
['maʊntɪbæŋk]
Definition
(noun.) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes.
Typist: Veronica--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
(v. t.) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
(v. i.) To play the mountebank.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pretender, charlatan, empiric, quack, quack doctor.
Edited by Carlos
Definition
n. a quack-doctor who boasts of his skill and his medicines: a boastful pretender.—adj. pertaining to such sham.—v.t. to cheat by false pretences to humbug.—v.i. to play the mountebank.—ns. Moun′tebankery Moun′tebanking Moun′tebankism.
Editor: Woodrow
Examples
- Peace, good mountebank, I did but utter the truth that was in my heart. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In about another week, I wrote to him again as follows: Why don't you come, Mountebank? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He was looking at a mountebank! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Send hither the mountebanks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Word was brought to Count Leonardo that a company of mountebanks besought his hospitality. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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